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From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: L3FWD LPM IP lookup performance question
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:11:33 +0200
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On 26/09/2013 23:16, Chris Pappas wrote:
> we are having some numbers regarding the performance of L3FWD and would
> like to confirm that they make sense.
> So, for L3FWD and 1500byte packets we get 120Gbps out of 12x10Gbps ports
> (so we get full throughput) and for 64byte packets we get 80Gbps.

12x10 with 80Gbps@64 bytes => 119Mpps
You did not describe your system: number of cores, sockets, PCIe slots, etc.

Whatever the HW environment you are using, you should run the same tests 
but with testpmd in order to qualify the limits of the IOs for your 
platform.

Best regards,
   Vincent