[HN Gopher] Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown ___________________________________________________________________ Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown Author : talawahtech Score : 14 points Date : 2022-07-04 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (talawah.io) (TXT) w3m dump (talawah.io) | tomohawk wrote: | From: https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning- | one-... | | > I am genuinely interested in hearing the opinions of more | security experts on this (turning off speculative execution | mitigatins). If this is your area of expertise, feel free to | leave a comment | | Are these generally safe if you have a machine that does not have | multi-user access and is in a security boundary? | pclmulqdq wrote: | This was a fascinating read and the kernel does quite nicely in | comparison - 66% of DPDK performance is amazing. That said, the | article completely nails the performance advantage: DPDK doesn't | do a lot of stuff that the kernel does. That stuff takes time. If | I recall correctly, DPDK abstractions themselves cost a bit of | NIC performance, so it might be interesting to see a comparison | including a raw NIC-specific kernel bypass framework (like the | SolarFlare one). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-04 23:00 UTC)