[okl4-developer] Networking performance

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:04:42PM +0530, G S Madhusudan wrote:
> Has anyone done performance studies on networking data plane traffic ?
> I plan to to develop virtualized network appliance type applications 
> using L4 and was wondering  what data speeds could be expected for say 
> std 1k sized raw IP packets without
> any processing (networking card to minimal device driver to user buffer 
> via a tuned IP
> stack ).


We have previously achieved throughput with single digit performance 
overhead compared with native Linux using a USB-based network adapter,
with DMA enabled.

	-gl
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