On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 04:41:25PM -0800, William Tu wrote: > Currently the performance of sending packets from userspace > ovs to kernel veth device is pretty bad as reported from YiYang[1]. > The patch adds AF_PACKET v3, tpacket v3, as another way to > tx/rx packet to linux device, hopefully showing better performance. > > AF_PACKET v3 should get closed to 1Mpps, as shown[2]. However, > my current patch using iperf tcp shows only 1.4Gbps, maybe > I'm doing something wrong. Also DPDK has similar implementation > using AF_PACKET v2[3]. This is still work-in-progress but any > feedbacks are welcome.
Is there a good reason that this is implemented as a new kind of netdev rather than just a new way for the existing netdev implementation to do packet i/o? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
