Tag: ovs
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From 12 to 60 Gbps with DPDK, when we tried to become a 5G-edge box
The sixth post in the CertaScale series. When private cloud proved a hard sell, the owners pivoted to 5G edge, and edge means line-rate on commodity hardware. Our kernel data path topped out around 12 Gbps on 100 Gbps NICs. Taking it out of the kernel with DPDK, hugepages, poll-mode drivers, and userspace-bound NICs got the same servers to roughly 60 Gbps.