[okl4-developer] Networking performance

[G S Madhusudan]

Couple of questions

1. I presume this was a 100 Mbit adaptor - what were the actual
throughput numbers achieved ?

2. Shouldn't L4 performance be better than native Linux performance ?

Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:04:42PM +0530, G S Madhusudan wrote:
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>> 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 ).
>>     
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> 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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>> Thanks
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