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Snabb Switch 2014.07 "Durian"

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@lukego lukego released this 02 Jul 10:16
· 9600 commits to master since this release

This release achieves practical NFV performance over Virtio-net: approaching 10G line rate for 256-byte average packet size.

New features:

  • #187 Support reconnect to an existing vhost-user socket on snabbswitch restart.
  • #195 #196 #215 #220 Benchmarking support for NFV workloads with N x 10G Virtio-net including DPDK-based guests, CPU/NUMA affinity tuning, etc.

Big changes:

  • #189 #201 #213 Fast-path optimizations.
  • #211 Optimize address translation cache for 1GB large pages.
  • #221 Optimized L2VPN code including packet encode/decode library.

Small changes:

  • #204 Update vhost-user to match the version upstreamed into QEMU.
  • #200 Fixes to Virtio-net driver.