CPU performance ROS vs 6wind

RouterOS General
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Hello, I don’t want to create a dispute with this subject.

I’m just trying to understand why the 6wind offers such a brutal performance improvement compared to RouterOS. Both systems running on x86.

In order to manage 500,000 PPS in RouterOS we need 16 cores at 3.00 GHz and with 6wind they offer us 1,000,000 PPS with only 1 core.

We should expect an improvement in this respect with ROS 7 ?

Thanks!

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6wind uses DPDK to do fastpath on x86, Mikrotik CHR does not yet have fastpath support.

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I remember to see one presentation saying that VMWare’s vmxnet driver supported fastpath. This using the CHR version, not the x86 one.