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Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Cake]  are anyone playing with dpdk and vpp?
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:32:14PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> DPDK gets impressive performance on large systems (like 14M packets/sec per
> core), but not convinced on smaller systems.

I guess also “14M packets/sec/core for doing what”. If you want to implement
the dumbest switch in the world, then sure. If you want NAT, what kind of
performance do you get? How flexible is it wrt. user configuration?

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