> Am 10.05.2021 um 13:08 schrieb Francois ten Krooden <f...@nanoteq.com>: > > Greetings > > We have a vested interest in high-speed IPsec VPN on FreeBSD. We have started > with the porting of VPP (https://fd.io/) to FreeBSD. > > Currently we have VPP compiled and running with netmap. The speeds we measure > are nowhere near the performance of a 10Gbps link, at around 350kpps for 1500 > byte IPv4 packets. We suspect the biggest issue is related to how VPP > implements huge pages (Linux) and our modifications to support super pages on > FreeBSD. > > Apart from the above, there are remaining issues we need to sort out and > "Linuxisms" that need porting to FreeBSD, but this is going reasonably well. > We are working in a public Github repository and have started listing our > issues there alongside the code. Our main working branch is "freebsd" > (https://github.com/ftk-ntq/vpp/tree/freebsd). > > Our aim with this mail is to get the discussion started on porting VPP to > FreeBSD and to invite interested parties to help with the effort. We intend > to upstream the work hoping that the original authors will adopt our ported > code and continue maintaining future compatibility with FreeBSD. > > Some of our questions or comments to start the conversation: > 1. netmap vs. DPDK (VPP relies on DPDK by default with the netmap integration > deprecated). Which will be the best to choose? > 2. How to correctly implement using super pages / huge pages in FreeBSD in > order to allow VPP to allocate contiguous memory blocks for packet buffers to > process packets from the packet handling framework (netmap/DPDK)? > 3. What are suitable alternatives for reading information from procfs and > sysfs on FreeBSD? > 4. Functionality relying on Linux epoll is currently supported using > epoll-shim. Is this the correct approach? > > Any help and input to aid in the effort will be greatly appreciated.
IIRC, somebody from Netgate (pfSense) had porting this and/or DPDK as a „spare time project“. Not sure how far that actually proceeded. Maybe somebody else knows more? Thanks for your efforts, in any case. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
