SoftGate Performance

The following tested results are offered to help properly size the hardware needed for a SoftGate with various types of services:

SoftGate Performance

Routing(mpps)

Routing with unmatched DNAT rules (mpps)

Routing with unmatched DNAT and SNAT rules (mpps)

DNAT

SNAT

DNAT with unmatched SNAT rules

Xeon E5-2660 CPU cores: (6 core for fw) Scheduler 0 Forward 1-7 KNI 8-10 OS 11-15

~27mpps

~17mpps

7mpps

9mpps

~2mpps

Xeon Gold 6130 CPU cores: (6 core for fw) Scheduler 0 Forward 3-13(odd numbers) KNI 15 17 19

~31mpps

~22mpps

~15mpps

~11mpps

~3mpps(3M conntrack count) ~7mpps(20k conntrack count)

~11mpps

Xeon Gold 6130 CPU cores: (8 core for fw) Scheduler 0 Forward 3-17(odd numbers) KNI 19 21 23

~38mpps

~28mpps

19mpps

12mpps

~12mpps