[Bloat] [Cerowrt-devel] beating the drum for BQL

[Dave Taht]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:01 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>
> Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > One of the things not readily evident in trying to scale up, is the
> > cost of even the most basic routing table lookup. A lot of good work
> > in this area landed in linux 4.1 and 4.2 (see a couple posts here:
> > https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2017-performance-progression-ipv4-route-lookup-linux
> > )
> >
> > Lookup time for even the smallest number of routes is absolutely
> > miserable for IPv6 -
> > https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2017-ipv6-route-lookup-linux
>
> The IPv6 routing lookup is on par with v4 these days. We got 7.2M pkts/s
> in our XDP tests on a single core (although admittedly a fairly high-end
> Intel one). Which allows you to route 10Gbps of 64-byte packets on two
> cores...

Call me cynical, call me grumpy...

but did you get that result with testing 1,10,100,1000, 10,000, 100k,
1M routes? The best
case performance on that test looked like .150us, the worst case 1.75us
> -Toke



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