dperf: A 100Gbps Network Load Tester - Jianzhang Peng, Timeresearch

dperf: A 100Gbps Network Load Tester - Jianzhang Peng, Timeresearch
The L4 load balancer is the traffic entry point for data centers, holding huge throughputs and connections, and the performance testing is a challenge in the industry. Traditional testing methods use a large number of servers to build a test environment or purchase some expensive commercial testers. Unfortunately, this method is difficult to meet the test needs in terms of performance, convenience, cost, and functionality. Dperf is a DPDK-based network load tester that supports TCP, UDP, IPV4, IPV6, VLAN, VXLAN etc. Its network protocol stack is fully designed for L4 load balancer. Dperf can generate huge traffic with a single x86 server: tens of millions of HTTP CPS，hundreds of Gbps throughput and billions of concurrent connections. Compared with traditional test methods, dperf has the advantages of high performance, low cost, convenient deployment, and easy use. Many large tech companies are using it for testing. Up to now, dperf has more than 3K github stars.
Accelerating Network Performance - The most popular kit to accelerate packet processing on a wide variety of CPU architectures Designed to run on x86, POWER and ARM processors, DPDK is a set of libraries running mostly in Linux userland, with a FreeBSD port available for a subset of features. www.dpdk.org/