[infinispan-dev] Google load balancer design

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On Tue 2016-03-22  8:56, Radim Vansa wrote:
> On 03/22/2016 08:24 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
> > http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/03/21/maglev-a-fast-and-reliable-software-network-load-balancer/
> >
> > Interesting read. Some data points I extracted.
> >
> > 350 ns per parquet. Ensuring a 300us during load.
> 
> Regrettably JGroups does not bypass Linux kernel (yet). It sounds like 
> the forwarder is written for the particular NIC model (or maybe reuses 
> the driver internally), though it's in userspace.

Yes I was even thinking they did write their own NIC firmware :)