Linux Kernel vs DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown
In this post I will use a simple HTTP benchmark to do a head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel's network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
In this post I will use a simple HTTP benchmark to do a head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel's network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.
Check, Cheque, Czech. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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