From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Cristofer Martins <CristoferMartins@hotmail.com>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] General Questions
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 07:58:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409075816.77217cc9@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR20MB24691D98C517934AFFD9CB88D0C10@BYAPR20MB2469.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 06:11:28 +0000
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.
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
If you are doing syscalls in your DPDK application, then you are defeating the point
of DPDK and you are better off using the kernel networking stack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-09 14:58 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 [this message]
2020-04-09 15:27 ` Shyam Shrivastav
2020-04-09 15:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-09 20:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
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