On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:00:42 +0800 "Jun Xiao" <jun.xiao at cloudnetengine.com> wrote:
> After CloudNetEngine vswitch technical preview is launched, we received quite > a few queries on vswitches performance comparison, but we cannot simply give a > test result on our platform because performance varies on different H/Ws and > different workloads, and that's why we encourage you to try the evaluation > package to get real data on your setup. > > Anyway, we share a little more performance data on our H/W which is a > comparison > among native kernel OVS/OVS-DPDK/CNE vswitch under the most common workload: > concurrent bi-directional TCP traffics cross hosts, and hope you can have a > rough idea. > http://www.cloudnetengine.com/weblog/2015/07/22/vswitches-performance-comparison/ > > Thanks, > Jun Since the real bottleneck in most vswitches is per-packet overhead. I would recommend running RFC-2544 tests for better data. You probably need to use something like pktgen to get enough packets-per-second.