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From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] L3FWD LPM IP lookup performance question
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:53:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5241B572.5090009@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGeT4PLM1mG8NsFwWL06NMz7KeR641FDAYbqK171SpLO7XzqMA@mail.gmail.com>

I do not know any open source implementation of an efficient LPM. FYI, 
some data with a commercial one:
   -> up to 160Mpps, the bottleneck was the IOs, not the CPU.
   http://www.6wind.com/products/6windgate-protocols/ip-forwarding/

Best regards,
   Vincent

On 24/09/2013 15:53, Jun Han wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are trying to benchmark L3FWD application and have a question regarding
> the IP lookup algorithm as we expect the bottleneck to be at the lookup.
> Could someone let us know how efficient the lookup algorithm that L3FWD is
> using (e.g, LPM)? We are asking because we want to obtain highest L3
> forwarding performance number, and we might need to change the lookup
> method if the current LPM method is not as efficient.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Jun
>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 13:53 Jun Han
2013-09-24 15:53 ` Vincent JARDIN [this message]
2013-09-26 21:16   ` Chris Pappas
2013-09-30 10:11     ` Vincent JARDIN
2013-10-01  8:57 Vladimir Medvedkin

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