Dear Alessio, It is hard to guess where is the problem out of your description, but I would not be surprised that your implementation of those graph nodes is not properly performance tuned. One missing prefetch can hurt performance really badly.
If you are able to share your code I can take a quick look... Thanks, Damjan On 25 Sep 2017, at 07:12, Alessio Silvestro <ale.silver...@gmail.com<mailto:ale.silver...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear all, I am performing some experiments on VPP in order to get some performance metrics for specific applications. I am working on vpp v17.04.2-2. In order to have a baseline of my system, I run L2 XConnect (XC) as in [https://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~drossi/paper/vpp-bench-techrep.pdf]. In this case, I can achieve, similarly to the paper, ~13Mpps -- which somehow confirm that the current setup is correct. I implemented 2 further experiments: 1) L3-Xconnect I implemented a new node that listens for traffic with specific ether_type with the following api: ethernet_register_input_type(vm, ETHERNET_TYPE_X, my_node.index) Once the traffic is received, the node sends the traffic directly to l2_output without any further processing. The achieved packet rate is less than 5 Mpps. 2) L4-Xconnect I implemented another node that listens for UDP traffic on a specific port with the following api: udp_register_dst_port (vm, UDP_DST_PORT_vxlan, vxlan_input_node.index, 1 /* is_ip4 */); Once the traffic is received, the node sends the traffic directly to l2_output without any further processing. The achieved packet rate is less than 4 Mpps. The testbed is composed of 2 servers. The first server is running VPP whereas the second server runs the traffic generator (packetgen). The servers are equipped with Intel NICs capable of dual-port 10 Gbps full-duplex link. Generated packets have the size of 64kb. VPP is configured to run with one main thread and one worker thread. Therefore, the previous values are meant for a single CPU-core. In my opinion those values are a bit too low compared to other state-of-the-art approaches. Do you have any idea on why this is happening and, if this is my fault, how I can fix it. Thanks, Alessio _______________________________________________ vpp-dev mailing list vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/vpp-dev
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