DXR maintains compressed lookup structures with a trivial search
procedure. A two-stage trie is indexed by the more significant bits of
the search key (IPv4 address), while the remaining bits are used for
finding the next hop in a sorted array. The tradeoff between memory
footprint and search speed depends on the split between the trie and
the remaining binary search. The default of 20 bits of the key being
used for trie indexing yields good performance (see below) with
footprints of around 2.5 Bytes per prefix with current BGP snapshots.
Rebuilding lookup structures takes some time, which is compensated for by
batching several RIB change requests into a single FIB update, i.e. FIB
synchronization with the RIB may be delayed for a fraction of a second.
RIB to FIB synchronization, next-hop table housekeeping, and lockless
lookup capability is provided by the FIB_ALGO infrastructure.
DXR works well on modern CPUs with several MBytes of caches, especially
in VMs, where is outperforms other currently available IPv4 FIB
algorithms by a large margin.
Synthetic single-thread LPM throughput test method:
kldload test_lookup; kldload dpdk_lpm4; kldload fib_dxr
sysctl net.route.test.run_lps_rnd=N
sysctl net.route.test.run_lps_seq=N
where N is the number of randomly generated keys (IPv4 addresses) which
should be chosen so that each test iteration runs for several seconds.
Each reported score represents the best of three runs, in million
lookups per second (MLPS), for two bechmarks (RND & SEQ) with two FIBs:
host: single interface address, local subnet route + default route
BGP: snapshot from linx.routeviews.org, 887957 prefixes, 496 next hops
Bhyve VM on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60 GHz:
inet.algo host, RND host, SEQ BGP, RND BGP, SEQ
bsearch4 40.6 20.2 N/A N/A
radix4 7.8 3.8 1.2 0.6
radix4_lockless 18.0 9.0 1.6 0.8
dpdk_lpm4 14.4 5.0 14.6 5.0
dxr 70.3 34.7 43.0 19.5
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30 GHz:
inet.algo host, RND host, SEQ BGP, RND BGP, SEQ
bsearch4 47.0 23.1 N/A N/A
radix4 8.5 4.2 1.9 1.0
radix4_lockless 19.2 9.5 2.5 1.2
dpdk_lpm4 31.2 9.4 31.6 9.3
dxr 84.9 41.4 51.7 23.6
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4771 CPU @ 3.50 GHz:
inet.algo host, RND host, SEQ BGP, RND BGP, SEQ
bsearch4 59.5 29.4 N/A N/A
radix4 10.8 5.5 2.5 1.3
radix4_lockless 24.7 12.0 3.1 1.6
dpdk_lpm4 29.1 9.0 30.2 9.1
dxr 101.3 49.9 69.8 32.5
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor @ 3.60 GHz:
inet.algo host, RND host, SEQ BGP, RND BGP, SEQ
bsearch4 70.8 35.4 N/A N/A
radix4 14.4 7.2 2.8 1.4
radix4_lockless 30.2 15.1 3.7 1.8
dpdk_lpm4 29.9 9.0 30.0 8.9
dxr 163.3 81.5 99.5 44.4
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor @ 3.70 GHz:
inet.algo host, RND host, SEQ BGP, RND BGP, SEQ
bsearch4 93.6 46.7 N/A N/A
radix4 18.9 9.3 4.3 2.1
radix4_lockless 37.2 18.6 5.3 2.7
dpdk_lpm4 51.8 15.1 51.6 14.9
dxr 218.2 103.3 114.0 49.0
Reviewed by: melifaro
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29821
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