[dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK

Alexander Nasonov alnsn at yandex.ru
Tue Sep 9 14:16:59 CEST 2014


Matthew Hall wrote:
> However despite this issue, there are some cases where the Linux stack is 
> greatly superior to the BSD one although normally the opposite is the case... 
> AF_NETLINK for configuring 10,000+ IP addresses, especially for L4-L7 
> performance testing, would be one possible example of this. Another potential 
> example would be the BPF JIT compiler if you want to combine BPF filters with 
> DPDK (something I'm doing right now in my own code actually).

BPF JIT is available in NetBSD too. It should be quite staightforward to
enable it in the rump-dpdk kernel.

Alex


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