Performance results
All tests were performed using the setup described here and two machines with the following specification:
- 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz, 24 logical cores,
- 64 GB of DDR3 RAM,
- 2x Intel® 82599 10 Gb Ethernet Port,
- 2x Intel® I350 1 Gb Ethernet Port.
TCP
![TCP Throughput [Mbps]](../tcp-throughput.svg)
| Threads | Raw Hyper-V - Sender [Mbps] | Raw Hyper-V - Receiver [Mbps] | Contrail - Sender [Mbps] | Contrail - Receiver [Mbps] | % of Hyper-V | % of CPU - Hyper-V - Sender | % of CPU - Hyper-V - Receiver | % of CPU - Contrail - Sender | % of CPU - Contrail - Receiver |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1444.4524 | 1444.122 | 743.7092 | 742.6128 | 51.42% | 0.91% | 2.79% | 1.96% | 2.78% |
| 2 | 2795.4788 | 2795.0872 | 1394.8996 | 1394.8912 | 49.91% | 1.61% | 5.32% | 3.78% | 5.17% |
| 4 | 4460.9844 | 4460.3996 | 2404.3604 | 2404.3528 | 53.90% | 2.71% | 9.07% | 6.92% | 9.42% |
| 6 | 5014.9336 | 5014.9672 | 3143.892 | 3143.8708 | 62.69% | 3.47% | 10.43% | 9.71% | 12.14% |
| 8 | 5135.414 | 5134.9136 | 3270.4656 | 3270.4508 | 63.69% | 3.65% | 11.06% | 10.27% | 12.74% |
| 10 | 5672.1464 | 5672.0464 | 3777.248 | 3777.2276 | 66.59% | 5.02% | 12.90% | 12.03% | 14.89% |
| 12 | 6424.514 | 6424.4568 | 3714.9492 | 3714.8936 | 57.82% | 5.93% | 14.55% | 12.24% | 14.70% |
| 14 | 6889.9208 | 6889.7444 | 4328.3296 | 4328.2364 | 62.82% | 6.41% | 15.46% | 15.06% | 17.45% |
| 16 | 6943.7104 | 6943.5716 | 4061.5212 | 4061.492 | 58.49% | 6.60% | 15.87% | 14.66% | 17.16% |
| 18 | 7041.1248 | 7041.0632 | 4237.8896 | 4237.8916 | 60.19% | 7.13% | 16.47% | 16.20% | 18.62% |
| 20 | 7160.0608 | 7159.638 | 4068.4088 | 4068.4116 | 56.82% | 7.23% | 16.89% | 16.01% | 17.79% |
| 22 | 7087.648 | 7087.3748 | 3921.0916 | 3921.0836 | 55.32% | 7.43% | 16.91% | 15.28% | 17.64% |
| 24 | 7113.6592 | 7113.5276 | 4675.3132 | 4675.2832 | 65.72% | 7.06% | 16.61% | 18.79% | 20.49% |
UDP
![UDP Throughput [Mbps]](../udp-throughput.svg)
| Threads | Raw Hyper-V - Sender [Mbps] | Raw Hyper-V - Receiver [Mbps] | Contrail - Sender [Mbps] | Contrail - Receiver [Mbps] | % of Hyper-V | % of CPU - Hyper-V - Sender | % of CPU - Hyper-V - Receiver | % of CPU - Contrail - Sender | % of CPU - Contrail - Receiver |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225.2296 | 225.346 | 622.5044 | 256.5688 | 113.86% | 1.98% | 1.79% | 4.85% | 1.26% |
| 2 | 450.6592 | 450.7124 | 1079.654 | 482.7032 | 107.10% | 4.13% | 4.48% | 9.55% | 2.37% |
| 4 | 900.9856 | 901.6464 | 1850.5632 | 898.2948 | 99.63% | 8.14% | 6.30% | 17.64% | 4.44% |
| 6 | 1351.7572 | 1352.2848 | 2446.7216 | 1221.2412 | 90.31% | 12.91% | 8.36% | 25.94% | 7.00% |
| 8 | 1801.6372 | 1801.806 | 2671.3668 | 1448.594 | 80.40% | 17.95% | 8.31% | 31.42% | 8.04% |
| 10 | 2253.2996 | 2253.3708 | 3052.776 | 1706.3884 | 75.73% | 21.31% | 10.42% | 38.97% | 10.18% |
| 12 | 2702.1204 | 2704.1804 | 3444.5848 | 1839.2992 | 68.02% | 22.60% | 12.84% | 45.27% | 11.92% |
| 14 | 3151.0788 | 3154.8836 | 3784.9828 | 2138.8664 | 67.80% | 25.81% | 15.20% | 51.57% | 13.91% |
| 16 | 3593.6164 | 3398.0876 | 3975.2216 | 2207.3464 | 64.96% | 38.06% | 17.64% | 57.90% | 16.39% |
| 18 | 3589.344 | 3589.8764 | 4175.4916 | 2220.9852 | 61.87% | 40.00% | 18.77% | 64.57% | 17.74% |
| 20 | 3516.6584 | 3479.6724 | 4406.2384 | 2272.4316 | 65.31% | 40.70% | 18.23% | 73.07% | 17.68% |
| 22 | 3540.0012 | 3492.4404 | 4519.2404 | 2358.2228 | 67.52% | 43.16% | 18.31% | 81.53% | 20.30% |
| 24 | 3646.9292 | 3647.4112 | 4162.3708 | 2256.6728 | 61.87% | 45.72% | 19.21% | 79.75% | 18.64% |