On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:42 AM Rainer Duffner <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> > > > 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. > DPDK is already supported on FreeBSD : https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/freebsd_gsg/install_from_ports.html. It has been a long time since I tried using DPDK on FreeBSD but the basics should work. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"
