Benchmarking DPDK

My reference: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/set-up-open-vswitch-with-dpdk-on-ubuntu-server So I got to play with the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) from Intel recently. I planned on replicating the PVP benchmark for my use-case. I set up the following environment: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) host with: KVM QEMU Debian 10 guest images downloaded from: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/ A useful tool is numactl (use apt to install it). On my non-server system, I don’t have multiple socks and multiple cores per sock etc. ...

July 8, 2019 · 4 min · 674 words