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Performance Measurements of Linux, DanOS, VYOS, VPP, and Linux XDP at 100GE

Tests still being performed - VPP Still as yet untested

Results:

Table below represent Millions of Packets Per Second (MPPS) send for forwarding via the router software vs packetloss of the end destination of expected packets.
Note:
- droptest % represents the % of loss of the legitimate packets
- some higher rates not tested once significant loss was demonstrated at lower levels
- no optimisations performed on these routers unless otherwise noted below

 

Single traffic flow Test, 50 firewall policies
- Single destination IP, single protocol, same src/dst port
- 50 Firewall Policies
- % indicates forwarding packetloss
- VYOSXDP is not running any firewall policies as firewall not supported
- LinXDP running custom firewall + 802.1Q

MPPS
0.45 0.75 1.5 3 4.5 6 7.5 9 10 12 15 18
Danos 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 13.7% 31.1% 40.3%      
LinXDP 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 28.2% 46.2% 57.3% 65.1% 70.1% 74.4% 80.2%  
VYOS 21.7% 53.1% 63.9% 88.3% 92.2% 94.1%            
VYOSXDP * 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.7% 35.5% 51.7% 61.7% 68.1% 73.0% 76.3% 81.5%  

 

GRE Test, multiple flows, GRE encapsulations received on other end, fragmentation off
- Random Destination IPs within single /24, multiple src/dst ports, all packets GRE encap
- 50 Firewall policies
- % indicates forwarding packetloss
- LinXDP running custom firewall / GRE tunnel code  + 802.1Q

MPPS 0.45 0.75 1.5 3 4.5 6 7.5 9 10 12 15 18
Danos 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 10.8% 34.3% 47.8% 56.7% 63.1%         
Linux 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 34.7% 55.7% 66.5% 73.5% 77.7%            
LinXDP 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.2% 10.1% 30.9% 42.3%
VYOS 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 7.2% 36.7% 51.3%                 

 

900K Route Test, multiple flows
- Random Destination IPs within single /24, multiple src/dst ports
- 50 Firewall Policies
- % indicates forwarding packetloss
- LinXDP running custom firewall + 802.1Q
- VYOSXDP is not running any firewall policies as firewall not supported
- 900k routes loaded into routing table

MPPS 3 4.5 6 7.5 9 10 12 15 18 20 30
Danos 0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 15.1% 27.0% 49.2%
LinXDP 0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 12.7% 24.9% 30.0% 43.4% 59.1% 65.1%
VYOS 0% 9.2% 28.9% 43.2%                     
VYOSXDP** 0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 21.0% 28.9% 42.6% 48.8% 64.5%

 

DDoS Drop Test (50% traffic dropped)
- Random Destination IPs within single /24, UDP traffic, multiple src/dst ports
- 50 Firewall Policies
- % indicates forwarding packetloss of packets that were not supposed to be dropped
- LinuxXDP running custom firewall + 802.1Q
- VYOSXDP not tested because it has no firewall capability
- 900k routes loaded into routing table

MPPS 3 4.5 6 7.5 9 10 12 15 18 20 30
Danos 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 10.6% 22.5% 47.2%
LinuxXDP 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 30.4% 37.2% 45.1% 65.6%
VYOS 0.0% 8.7% 26.7% 39.5%                    

 

 

Test Environment & pktgen tool

Network Card:

mlx5_core 0000:3b:00.1: firmware version: 16.27.6120
mlx5_core 0000:3b:00.1: 126.016 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link at 0000:3a:00.0 (capable of 252.048 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link)

We wont go into building pktgen as there's plenty of doco out there on this.  Just for reference purposes on how we ran pktgen:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/ /root/pktgen-dpdk/usr/local/bin/pktgen -l 2,4,6 -n 2 -a 3b:00.1 -d librte_net_mlx5.so  -- -p 0x1 -P -m "[4:6].0"

Traffic generated:
Static destination MAC (The test Target)
pktgen:

set 0 rate 10   (This is % of 100GE, adjusted accordingly at 1% = 1.5MPPS)
set 0 size 64
set 0 count 50000000
set 0 proto udp
set 0 dst ip 10.22.23.102
set 0 src ip 10.22.22.101/24
set 0 dst mac XX:XX:XX:XX:d1:7b
set 0 src mac XX:XX:XX:XX:36:75
set 0 type ipv4

Single flow:
Single target IP address
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, same src/dst ports
No firewall policies

Single flow, 5 firewall policies:
Single target IP address
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, same src/dst ports
5 firewall policies

Single flow, 50 firewall policies:
Single target IP address
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, same src/dst ports
50 firewall policies

Single flow, GRE tunnel:
Single target IP address
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, same src/dst ports
50 firewall policies
GRE encap traffic and forward to static destination

Multiple flow:
254 destination IP addresses (multi-flow)
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, random src ports (multi-flow)
50 firewall policies
pktgen:

range 0 src port 53 53 1000 1
range 0 dst ip 10.22.23.1 10.22.23.1 10.22.23.254 0.0.0.1
range 0 src ip 10.22.22.101 10.22.22.101 10.22.22.101 0.0.0.0
range 0 src mac XX:XX:XX:XX:36:75 XX:XX:XX:XX:36:75 XX:XX:XX:XX:36:75 00:00:00:00:00:00
range 0 dst mac XX:XX:XX:XX:d1:7b XX:XX:XX:XX:d1:7b XX:XX:XX:XX:d1:7b 00:00:00:00:00:00
enable 0 range

900K Route Test:
254 destination IP addresses
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, random src/dst ports
50 firewall policies
900K loaded route table

Drop Test:

1  destination IP addresses, multiple ports (multi-flow)
UDP traffic, 64 bytes per packet, random src/dst ports
50 firewall policies, default deny
900K loaded route table
Half test traffic configured to be dropped

DanOS

Version: 2105
Built on:  Fri Jun 11 11:58:32 UTC 2021
HW Model: PowerEdge R440
CPU: Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU @ 2.4Ghz

Routing Configuration:
set protocols static arp 10.22.22.101 hwaddr 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX'
set protocols static arp 10.22.22.101 interface dp0p59s0f1
set protocols static route 10.22.23.0/24 next-hop 10.22.22.101

Firewall policies:
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 ip-version ipv4
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 rule 1 action drop
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 rule 1 match source ipv4 host 1.1.1.1
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 rule 2 action drop
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 rule 2 match source ipv4 host 1.1.2.1
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 rule 3 action drop
set security ip-packet-filter group ipv4 rule 3 match source ipv4 host 1.1.3.1
...etc...
set security ip-packet-filter interface dp0p59s0f1 in ipv4

For GRE test:
set interfaces tunnel tun0 address 10.90.4.102/24
set interfaces tunnel tun0 encapsulation gre
set interfaces tunnel tun0 local-ip 10.22.22.102
set interfaces tunnel tun0 remote-ip 10.22.22.101
set protocols static route 10.22.23.0/24 next-hop 10.90.4.101

VyOS

$ show system cpu
CPU Vendor:       GenuineIntel
Model:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210R CPU @ 2.40GHz
Total CPUs:       1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19
Sockets:          2
Cores:            10
Threads:          1
Current MHz:      1000.128

$ show system memory
Total: 62.54 GB
Free:  61.17 GB
Used:  1.38 GB

$ show version

Version:          VyOS 1.4-rolling-202203150317
Release train:    sagitta

Built by:         autobuild@vyos.net
Built on:         Tue 15 Mar 2022 03:17 UTC
Build UUID:       9da98191-be0b-42e1-937a-97fb016b22ac
Build commit ID:  f2655e2ae72e8c

Architecture:     x86_64
Boot via:         installed image
System type:      bare metal

Hardware vendor:  Dell Inc.
Hardware model:   PowerEdge R440
Hardware S/N:     XXXXXXXXX
Hardware UUID:    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Copyright:        VyOS maintainers and contributors

Routing Configuration:
set protocols static arp 10.22.22.101 hwaddr 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX'
set protocols static route 10.22.23.0/24 next-hop 10.22.22.101

Firewall Policies:
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 1 action 'drop'
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 1 destination address 1.1.1.1
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 2 action 'drop'
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 2 destination address 1.1.2.1
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 3 action 'drop'
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 3 destination address 1.1.3.1
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 4 action 'drop'
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 4 destination address 1.1.4.1
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 5 action 'drop'
set firewall name TEST_IN rule 5 destination address 1.1.5.1
..... etc .....
set interfaces ethernet eth2 firewall in name TEST_IN

For GRE test:
set interfaces tunnel tun0 address '10.90.4.102/24'
set interfaces tunnel tun0 encapsulation 'gre'
set interfaces tunnel tun0 remote '10.22.22.101'
set interfaces tunnel tun0 source-address '10.22.22.102'
set protocols static route 10.22.23.0/24 next-hop 10.90.4.101