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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: "Md. Islam" <mislam4@kent.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, agaceph@gmail.com,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 ] net/veth/XDP: Line-rate packet forwarding in kernel
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 08:16:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180404081604.422e8a97@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgPn1DX9cOpDRGj=wFwvZq_bpq6VFnEOzR1YbMuC0+=DFEWxA@mail.gmail.com>


On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:47:28 -0400 Md. Islam" <mislam4@kent.edu> wrote:

> [...] More specifically, header parsing and fib
> lookup only takes around 82 ns. This shows that this could be used to
> implement linerate packet forwarding in kernel.

I cannot resist correcting you...

You didn't specify the link speed, but assuming 10Gbit/s, then the
linerate is 14.88Mpps, which is 67.2 ns between arriving packets. Thus,
if the lookup cost is 82 ns, thus you cannot claim linerate performance
with these numbers.


Details:

This is calculated based on the the minimum Ethernet frame size
84-bytes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame for why this
is the minimum size.

10*10^9/(84*8) = 14,880,952 pps
1/last*10^9    = 67.2 ns

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-04  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-02  0:47 [PATCH v15 ] net/veth/XDP: Line-rate packet forwarding in kernel Md. Islam
2018-04-02 16:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-02 18:03 ` John Fastabend
2018-04-02 18:09   ` David Ahern
2018-04-02 18:16     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-04-03 15:07       ` David Ahern
2018-04-03 16:41         ` John Fastabend
2018-04-03 16:45           ` David Miller
2018-04-03 17:00           ` David Ahern
2018-04-03 17:06             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-04-03 17:14               ` David Ahern
2018-04-03 17:37                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-04-04  1:09                   ` David Ahern
2018-04-03 18:21             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-04-04  1:16 ` David Ahern
2018-04-04  3:15   ` Md. Islam
2018-04-06  2:55     ` David Ahern
2018-04-10  4:27       ` Md. Islam
2018-04-04  6:16 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2018-04-04 21:09   ` Md. Islam

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