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DPDK vs SR-IOV for NFV? – Why a wrong decision

can impact performance!
162 Comments / NFV / By Faisal

It is not easy to settle the debate for DPDK vs SR-IOV-the technologies used to optimize
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packet processing in NFV servers.

For one, you will find supporters on both sides with their claims and arguments.

However although both are used to increase the packet processing performance in servers,
the decision on which one is better comes down to design rather than the technologies
themselves.
So a wrong decision on DPDK vs SR-IOV can really impact the throughput performance as
you will see towards the conclusion of the article.

To understand why design matters, it is a must to understand the technologies, starting

from how Linux processes packets.

In particular, this article attempts to answer the following questions!

1. What is DPDK
2. What is SR-IOV
3. How DPDK is different than SR-IOV
4. What are the right use cases for both and how to position them properly?
5. How DPDK/SR-IOV affects throughput performance.

I recommend that you start from the beginning until the end in order to understand the
conclusion in a better way.

What is DPDK?
DPDK stands for Data Plane Development Kit.

In order to understand DPDK , we should know how Linux handles the networking part

By default Linux uses kernel to process packets, this puts pressure on kernel to process
packets faster as the NICs (Network Interface Card) speeds are increasing at fast.

There have been many techniques to bypass kernel to achieve packet efficiency. This
involves processing packets in the userspace instead of kernel space. DPDK is one such
technology.

User space versus kernel space in Linux?

Kernel space is where the kernel (i.e., the core of the operating system) runs and provides
its services.  It sets things up so separate user processes see and manipulate only their
own memory space.

User space is that portion of system memory in which user processes run . Kernel space
can be accessed by user processes only through the use of system calls.

Let’s see how Linux networking uses kernel space:

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For normal packet processing, packets from NIC are pushed to Linux kernel before reaching
the application.

However, the introduction of DPDK (Data Plane Developer Kit), changes the landscape, as
the application can talk directly to the NIC completely bypassing the Linux kernel.

Indeed fast switching, isn’t it?

Without DPDK, packet processing is through the kernel network stack which is interrupt-
driven. Each time NIC receives incoming packets, there is a kernel interrupt to process the
packets and a context switch from kernel space to user space. This creates delay.

With the DPDK, there is no need for interrupts, as the processing happens in user space
using Poll mode drivers. These poll mode drivers can poll data directly from NIC, thus
provide fast switching by completely bypassing kernel space. This improves the throughput
rate of data.

DPDK with OVS

Now after we know the basics of how Linux networking stack works and what is the role of
DPDK, we turn our attention on how OVS (Open vSwitch ) works with and without DPDK.

What is OVS (Open vSwitch)?

Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open
source Apache 2.0 license. This runs as software in hypervisor and enables virtual
networking of Virtual Machines.

Main components162include:

Forwarding path: Datapath/Forwarding path is the main packet forwarding module of

OVS, implemented in kernel space for high performance

Vswitchid is the main Open vSwitch userspace program

An OVS is shown as part of the VNF implementation. OVS sits in the hypervisor. Traffic can
easily transfer from one VNF to another VNF through the OVS as shown

In fact, OVS was never designed to work in the telco workloads of NFV. The traditional web
applications are not throughput intensive and OVS can get away with it.

Now let’s try to dig deeper into how OVS processes traffic.

OVS, no matter how good it is, faces the same problem as the Linux networking stack
discussed earlier. The forwarding plane of OVS is part of the kernel as shown below,
therefore a potential bottleneck as the throughput speed increases.

Open vSwitch can be combined with DPDK for better performance, resulting in a DPDK-
accelerated OVS (OVS+DPDK). The goal is to replace the standard OVS kernel forwarding
path with a DPDK-based forwarding path, creating a user-space vSwitch on the host, which
uses DPDK internally for its packet forwarding. This increases the performance of OVS
switch as it is entirely running in user space as shown below.

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DPDK ( OVS + VNF)
It is also possible to run DPDK in VNF instead of OVS. Here the application is taking
advantage of DPDK, instead of standard Linux networking stack as described in the first
section.

While this implementation can be combined with DPDK in OVS but this is another level of
optimization. However, both are not dependent on one another and one can be
implemented without the other.
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SR-IOV
SR-IOV stands for “Single Root I/O Virtualization”. This takes the performance of the
compute hardware to the next level.
The trick here is to avoid hypervisor altogether and have VNF access NIC directly, thus
enabling almost line throughput.

But to understand this concept properly, let’s introduce an intermediate step, where
hypervisor pass- through is possible even without using SR-IOV.

This is called PCI pass through. It is possible to present a complete NIC to the guest OS
without using a hypervisor. The VM thinks that it is directly connected to NIC. As shown
here there are two NIC cards and two of the VNFs, each has exclusive access to one of the
NIC cards.

However the downside: As the two NICs below are occupied exclusively by the VNF1 and
VNF3. And there is no third dedicated NIC, the VNF2 below is left without any access.

SR-IOV solves exactly this issue:

The SR-IOV specification defines a standardized mechanism to virtualize PCIe devices.  This
mechanism can virtualize a single PCIe Ethernet controller to appear as multiple PCIe
devices.

By creating virtual slices of PCIe devices, each virtual slice can be assigned to a single
VM/VNF thereby eliminating the issue that happened because of limited NICs

Multiple Virtual Functions ( VFs) are created on a shared NIC. These virtual slices are created
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and presented to the VNFs.

(The PF stands for Physical function, This is the physical function that supports SR-IOV)
This can be further coupled with DPDK as part of VNF, thus taking combined advantage of
DPDK and SR-IOV.

When to use DPDK and/or SR-IOV

The earlier discussion shows two clear cases. One using a pure DPDK solution without SR-
IOV and the other based
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on SR-IOV. ( while there could be a mix of two in which SR-IOV can
be combined with DPDK) The earlier uses OVS and the later does not need OVS. For
understanding the positioning of DPDK vs SR-IOV, we will use just these two cases.
On the face of it, it may appear that SR-IOV is a better solution as it uses hardware-based
switching and not constrained by the OVS that is a purely software-based solution.
However, this is not as simple as that.

To understand there positioning, we should understand what is East-West vs North-South

traffic in Datacenters.

There is a good study done by intel on DPDK vs SR-IOV; they found out two different
scenarios where one is better than the other.

if Traffic is East-West, DPDK wins against SR-IOV

In a situation where the traffic is East-West within the same server ( and I repeat same
server), DPDK wins against SR-IOV. The situation is shown in the diagram below.

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This is clear from this test report of Intel study as shown below the throughput comparison
It is very simple to understand this: If traffic is routed/switched within the server and not
going to the NIC. There is NO advantage of bringing SR-IOV. Rather SR-IOV can become a
bottle neck ( Traffic path can become long and NIC resources utilized) so better to route the
traffic within the server using DPDK.

If traffic is North-South, SR-IOV wins against DPDK

In a scenario where traffic in North-South ( also including traffic that is East-West but from
one server to another server ), SR-IOV wins against DPDK. The correct label for this scenario
would be the traffic going from one server to another server.

The following report from the Intel test report clearly shows that SR-IOV throughput wins in
such case
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 It is also easy to interpret this as the traffic has to pass through the NIC anyway so why
involve DPDK based OVS and create more bottlenecks. SR-IOV is a much better solution
here

Conclusion with an Example

So lets summarize DPDK vs SR-IOV discussion

I will make it very easy. If traffic is switched within a server ( VNFs are within the server),
DPDK is better. If traffic is switched from one server to another server, SR-IOV performs
better.

It is apparent thus that you should know your design and traffic flow. Making a wrong
decision would definitely impact the performance in terms of low throughput as the graphs
above show.

So let say you have a service chaining application for microservices within one server, DPDK
is the solution for you. On the other hand, if you have a service chaining service, where
applications reside on different servers, SR-IOV should be your selection. But don’t forget
that you can always combine SR-IOV with DPDK in VNF ( not the DPDK in OVS case as
explained above) to further optimize the SR-IOV based design.

What’s your opinion here. Leave a comment below?

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Aman Kaushik 
2 years ago

Excellent Comparison & great insight of NFV performance challenges. Thanks.

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Saroj Panda 
2 years ago

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Excellent write up. Thanks Faisal.

Can you also share few successful deployments

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Saroj, I am afraid I dont have any public info about deployments

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Aman Kaushik
Thanks Aman ! Glad that you liked it

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Christopher Adigun 
2 years ago

162 explanation.. I have a question, is it possible to combine DPDK and SR-IOV in

This is a concise
way that traffic between VNFs within a server use OVS+DPDK while traffic between a VNF
and outside is routed via SR-IOV directly? In other words maybe there can be a process that
decides when to use OVS+DPDK or SR-IOV (i.e. if you have a capable NIC that supports SR-
IOV)

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 Faisal Khan 
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Interesting Comment Christopher !, I am not aware of this kind of implementation. Yet this
would be interesting to have to get the best of both worlds

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Thomas Monjalon 
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You can have both paravirtualization and SR-IOV interfaces in the VNF. You just need
to route to the best interface depending your traffic is East-West or North-South.

Even better: the VNF can be a DPDK application: all types of interfaces are supported
in DPDK, and there are some routing libraries.

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Faisal 
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Thanks Thomas for sharing your thoughts. Agreed.

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Askar 
2 years ago

That was brilliant articel Faisal. Thanks.

It appears to me that still there are a lot of details on NFV true implementation challenges
that need to be discussed. Thank you for opening this topic.

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Thanks Askar for stopping by to read my blog

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Adrie T 
2 years ago

I just know that there is an implementation of DPDK in VNF for optimizing the VNF in
accessing the virtual network layer. Is this using the same DPDK kit or there is another DPDK
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for this purpose?

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Faisal Khan 
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 Thanks for commenting. Yes, this is the same DPDK used in VNF. But as the article shows
that DPDK can be implemented in OVS as well as VNF…

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David Korman 
2 years ago

A very good comparison and source of information.

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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David Korman
Thanks David, Glad that you liked it

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Harish Shah 
2 years ago

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A very good read. Thanks for explaining it so nicely.

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Harish Shah
Thanks Harish, Glad that you liked it

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Karun 
2 years ago

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Amazing explanation and presentation in simple way to understand easily

sir, if you may post something on below topics

1. L3VPN

2. L2Gw

3. VxLAN

4. overlay and underlay

5. GRE

all in respect of current use into virtual data centers.

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karun 
2 years ago

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in addition

SD WAN

and orchestration
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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Thanks Karun for stopping by to read my blog. I will consider your feedback for
future blogs….

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Kranthi 
2 years ago

Nice comparison. Very helpful.

Request to provide more scenarios on OVS-DPDK, where you use it in real time.

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Kranthi
Thank you Kranthi for your comments !

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Kranthi
Thanks Kranthi, I am not sure if I got your question correctly..

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Priyesh 
2 years ago

Nice and simple explanation. Thanks for sharing 🙂

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Thank you Priyesh for visiting and commenting

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javed 
2 years ago
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Thanks, very informative

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Hossam Abdelmoniem 
2 years ago

Thanks a lot, Well described and explained.

Very very informative article!

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Samir Dixit 
2 years ago

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Detailed and yet simple to understand.

A must read for beginners in networking enthusiast

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Shubhra Srivastav 
2 years ago

Excellent explanation, Faisal. Thank you! Can you comment on the limitations of SW based
DPDK and SRIOV in terms of performance and latency and how using an accelerator (FPGA)
can improve both of those.

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Luciano 
2 years ago

The best article I’ve ever seen about DPDK and SR-IOV. Thanks !

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Hi Luciano, thank you…you made my day 🙂

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Kunal 
2 years ago

Great Explanation.

Would it be possible to include VPP as well?

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Kunal and for your inputs too
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Mohit 
2 years ago

Thanks Faisal for educating others in a very simplified way!

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 Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Mohit for your feedback

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Satyam Kumar 
2 years ago

Excellent explanation.You made my day .Need some more !!

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Faisal Khan 
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and you made my day 🙂 …thanks Satyam

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Jeff Tantsura 
2 years ago

Thanks for great article!

I think workload mobility and implications of SR-IOV for such cases should be included in the
overview.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks for your feedback Jeff Tantsura

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budiharto 
2 years ago

thanks for the article, very informative. for real NE in telco, it most likely will need to use SR-
IOV for high throughput reason and surely it will sit on top of multeple hosts/phy servers (for
redundancies and capacity), but it comes with the cost: it not easy to do “live” migration
without interrupting the service and less flexible as it require special mapping to phy NIC
(compared to OVS).

the logical choice will be limit SRIOV for telco “NE” and OVS for the rest (EMS, management
etc.)
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Agreed Budiharto
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Sam Gad 
2 years ago

Never seen anyone explain it better. thank you so much

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Sam, glad that you liked it

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SANDEEP 
2 years ago

Another great article Faisal!!!

A unique blend of story telling combined with technology enlightment.

I am hooked to your articles.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thank you so much Sandeep

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sorfaraz 
2 years ago

Is there any relationship here with SDN enable network?

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Faisal Khan 
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Salam Sorfaraz, the behaviour should be same irrespective of the use of SDN or not.

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Jayaprakash reddy(Jp) 
2 years ago

Really very 162

useful and informative article with clear explanation and logical diagrams. Thanks

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks a lot Jayaprakash ! glad that it was of help to you
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Ashwani 
2 years ago

This is one of the simplest explanation of such a complex topic that I have seen till now. This
article is like a treasure for me. I am thankful to you that you have published it to educate
others.

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Faisal Khan 
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Dear Ashwani, Thanks a lot. This is very encouraging comment for me….please spread the
good and share the article to your circle…

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Akmal 
2 years ago

Excellent review in a very simply and logical steps. Thank you for the great efforts

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Faisal Khan 
2 years ago

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Akmal
Thanks Akmal, Glad that you stopped by and liked this piece.

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Arvind Kumar 
2 years ago

You have dealt with a complex topic in the best possible simple way. Really amazed by your
capability to explain things in such a simple manner.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Arvind for stopping by to read the blog…

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Eslam Seweilam 
2 years ago

Very Informative Article , Thanks Faisal!

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Eslam for stopping by to read this piece.

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Arvind 
2 years ago

Excellent post Faisal. You really simplified it for me. My team is in the process of
implementing SR-IOV vs DPDK for a Telco and this is the kind of information I needed to
understand the concepts better.

I will probably come back in a few months with some practical view point that I can add from
our field experience.

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Faisal Khan 
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Wow that will be wonderful to get the practical viewpoint

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Rakesh Shrivastava 
2 years ago

Very very neatly explained Faisal. Good work !

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Faisal Khan 
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Great to have you here Rakesh !

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duy nguyen 
2 years ago

Good morning FAISAL KHAN,

This article very clear and easy to understand. Can I translate and add some more info this
article to Vietnamese before share to my Colleages?

Original link will be keep at heading of my article.

Thanks you!

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thanks duy, answered through mail

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 Karun 
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sir, for me vnf and nfv is quite confusing and hardly can differentiate these two, can
you please add some detail to differential both

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Thuan T. Nguyen 
1 year ago

This post does open my mind. But it is so good if we can show steps to be practical. To see
and trust.

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Thanks Thuan, can you elaborate a little bit

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Neetesh 
1 year ago

Excellent Article !!!

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Neetesh
Thanks Neetesh

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Sandeep 
1 year ago

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Really, explained in very easy format.

really helpful

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Faisal Khan 
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Sandeep, thanks for visiting and liking it.

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simiter 
1 year ago
good report!!

In “If traffic is North-South, SR-IOV wins against DPDK”, who dicide the route to VNF2?

To controll the route to VNF1,3, OVS-like Switch is nessesary. Outer switch?

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Sorry Simiter, not able to get you !

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sandeep sharma 
1 year ago

Really very well explained. good article.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Sandeep, good that you liked it

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Ajay Kumar 
1 year ago

great explination ..excellent 🙂

Many thanks…

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Thanks Ajay for stopping by to read and liking it.

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Zahid 
1 year ago

Faisal, indeed a great way and simplified one to explain the complex topics together.

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Zahid, great to know that you liked it

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Jessica 
1 year ago

“If You Can’t Explain it Simply, You Don’t Understand it Yourself”

Excellent Description. Thanks,

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks a lot Jessica

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Latha Sunkara 
1 year ago

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Really explained very well and any one can understand it. Keep posting more and more
pls. to educate rest of the world. Rarely seen such detailed write-ups.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Latha for taking to read and commenting.Glad that you liked it

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naga 
1 year ago

Excellent Sir !!

please share the DPDK and SR-IOV commands for regular operations and debug ?

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Naga ! I am not sure, can you clarify further

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sunil singh 
1 year ago

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simple and superb, as i am fresher to this technology still

grasped the essence!!

Thanks a Lot!!

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Faisal Khan 
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Thank you so much Sunil, you made my day 🙂

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Simon Chapman 
1 year ago

nicely explained.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Simon

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Anand 
1 year ago

Hi,

Brilliant explanation! Its simple and precise.

As you explained in DPDK, kernel is bypassed and userspace polls for the packets. Are you
aware of Enhanced Network Stack of VMware? It is a DPDK based stack in which the kernel
itself does the polling.

Do you think it will be a better solution for telcos? Better than simple DPDK or SRIOV?

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Hi Anand, thanks for commenting. I am not aware of VMWare stack, I will have to check it
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Jatin 
1 year ago

Thanks Faisal for making the Complex topic so Simple. Kudos to you.

How about next blog on VPP ?

Thanks.

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Sounds like a good idea ! Thanks Jatin for suggesting.

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Syed Asfar 
1 year ago

appreciate this topic explanation.

indeed very helpful.

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1 year ago

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Thanks Syed asfar, for taking time to read and liking it.

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Saif 
1 year ago

Thanks, Faisal for this excellent write-up. This was really helpful.

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks Saif, Glad that you liked it

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Ajay 
1 year ago

can you please correct the typo “DPDK stands for Data Plan Development Kit”.

it is awesome to see how simplified your contents are even though the topic are complex
.thumbs up !!

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Good feedback Ajay, this post guests hundreds of visitors every day, you are the first one
to point it out.

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Amarinder162
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1 year ago

Thanks Faisal, So easy to understand your write up on complex technologies

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Faisal Khan 
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 Thanks Amarinder

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Saurabh Mishra 
1 year ago

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Very nice explanation .. Awesome Job Faisal

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Thanks Saurabh, Glad that you liked it

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KELING JI 
1 year ago

very very good article ， but some pic can not be found , could you please to fix it ? many
thanks

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Faisal Khan 
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Thanks, keling, Can you clarify, as everything is visible at my end. which browser you are
using, can you change it.

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chandra 
1 year ago

Wow…Amazing explanation… right on target…So difficulty subject but you made it so easy…
well done

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Glad that you liked it Chandra, keep visiting back !

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Eduardo 
1 year ago

Very well explained Faisal, thank you!

I have a little doubt, however. As you explained, with SR-IOV the VM can already talk directly
to the server NIC (using a VF). What does DPDK provide for in a SR-IOV+DPDK scenario?
Cheers!

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Hi Eduardo, thanks for your question. Some applications are customized for DPDK ( does
not necessarily mean they have to use OVS for switching ), they can still be used with SR-
IOV, thus taking advantage of SR-IOV fast switching.

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rahul 
1 year ago

great work!! excellent

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Thanks Rahul, its nice to see that you liked it.

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Ranjeet 
1 year ago

Awesome for any new learner . Basic to deep explanation. Very simple way feeding full meal.

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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Hello Ranjeet, glad that you liked it.

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Ishrat Gul 
1 year ago

Wonderful comparison , thanks for knowledge sharing

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Faisal
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1 year ago

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Thanks Ishrat, Glad that you liked it.

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Ashok 
1 year ago
 Hi,

Very nice explanation thanks.

I see in the DPDK diagram, OVS is included in your explanation but not in SR-IOV.

Is the OVS required for switching traffic? How do you explain that?

Thanks

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Faisal Khan 
1 year ago

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you are correct Ashok, not needed in case of SR-IOV, but needed for DPDK for switching
traffic.

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Ashok Meti 
7 months ago

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Can that be corrected from the diagram now? That adds more clarity.

Thanks

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Faisal 
7 months ago

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Sorry, Ashok , did not get you. Any issue with the diagram ?

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