As discussed off-list: please stick to best-practice coding patterns. 
Single-packet frames simply cannot perform, etc.

Thanks… Dave

From: vpp-dev-boun...@lists.fd.io [mailto:vpp-dev-boun...@lists.fd.io] On 
Behalf Of Alessio Silvestro
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:13 AM
To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io
Subject: [vpp-dev] Poor L3/L4 Performance

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

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