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Re:Kernel-Bypass Networking by wmf on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:41PM (#21759091)
For routing, most people prefer to use... routers. Linux isn't great for forwarding and IMO that's fine. As the article notes, there's always VPP when you need to do software routing for some reason.
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Re:Kernel-Bypass Networking by StillBored on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @11:12PM (#21759514)
Yes, and the current user space approaches are spinloop based so the machine isn't really general purpose at that point. You might as well just call it a router if all your cores are spinning on RSS/etc queues.
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