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From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
To: tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Performance impact with multiple pcap handlers on Linux
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:05:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201222220533.GA5758@otheros> (raw)

Hi,

I was experimenting a bit with migrating from the use of
pcap_offline_filter() to pcap_setfilter().

I was a bit surprised that installing for instance 500 pcap
handlers with a BPF rule "arp" via pcap_setfilter() reduced
the TCP performance of iperf3 over veth interfaces from 73.8 Gbits/sec
to 5.39 Gbits/sec. Using only one or even five handlers seemed
fine (71.7 Gbits/sec and 70.3 Gbits/sec).

Is that expected?

Full test setup description and more detailed results can be found
here: https://github.com/lemoer/bpfcountd/pull/8

Regards, Linus

PS: And I was also surprised that there seems to be a limit of
only 510 pcap handlers on Linux.

                 reply	other threads:[~2020-12-22 22:12 UTC|newest]

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