[dpdk-users] General Questions

[Shyam Shrivastav]

>From my experience as dpdk user

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:41 AM Cristofer Martins <
CristoferMartins at 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.
>