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Re: Impact of hardware offloads on network stack performance

"Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> Thu, 10 May 2018 14:03 UTC

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From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
To: Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>
CC: Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <mikkelfj@gmail.com>, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>, craigt <c@gryning.com>, "Lubashev, Igor" <ilubashe@akamai.com>, Roberto Peon <fenix@fb.com>, Mike Bishop <mbishop@evequefou.be>, Ian Swett <ianswett=40google.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, Praveen Balasubramanian <pravb@microsoft.com>, IETF QUIC WG <quic@ietf.org>, "Deval, Manasi" <manasi.deval@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Impact of hardware offloads on network stack performance
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On 2018-5-10, at 14:57, Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Also, is there a reason to prefer netmap over other userspace network stacks like DPDK/VPP/etc?

For me personally, the netmap API is a lot more minimal and therefore easier to integrate. DPDK really wants to take over scheduling, memory management and all kinds of other stuff besides packet I/O. YMMV.

Lars

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