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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Shyam Shrivastav <shrivastav.shyam@gmail.com>
Cc: Cristofer Martins <CristoferMartins@hotmail.com>,
	"users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] General Questions
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 08:32:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409083236.08573753@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGSp03=E6oj=BDTvN-9BeUvBcKeLMQQLwqJxNBMDXrZoKq5qZw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 20:57:19 +0530
Shyam Shrivastav <shrivastav.shyam@gmail.com> wrote:

> From my experience as dpdk user
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:41 AM Cristofer Martins <
> CristoferMartins@hotmail.com> wrote:  
> 
> > Well the reason i thought about using dpdk(together with a user space tcp
> > stack) is because my tcp code spend so much time with syscalls that
> > removing that would allow better throughput and latency. Is this a valid
> > reason? My software runs in single core(and most of time in cheap vps) so i
> > want to extract the best i can from them.
> >  
> 
> Yes using dpdk instead of getting packets from kernel stack increases
> performance
> 
> 
> 
> > The other question is, can dpdk runs alongside with the linux network
> > stack? I want to use dpdk in my special app but i still want to have ssh
> > and apps working as expected without any modification.
> >  
> Interface used by dpdk is not available, at least another interface
> required for management/access &  other network apps
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >  

This might be a good use case for AF_XDP with or without DPDK

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-09  6:11 Cristofer Martins
2020-04-09 14:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-09 15:27 ` Shyam Shrivastav
2020-04-09 15:32   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-04-09 20:58     ` Thomas Monjalon

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