Bird and cpu clock / cores.

[Mike Neo]

As far as I understand it, BIRD 3 implements multithreading by allowing
different protocol instances or routing tables to run on separate worker
threads, but each individual bgp protocol instance itself still operates
mostly in a single-threaded manner. Right?

niedz., 2 lis 2025 o 00:24 Alarig Le Lay via Bird-users <
bird-users at network.cz> napisał(a):

> Hello,
>
> On Sat 01 Nov 2025 21:48:22 GMT, Mike Neo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's more important for a bird, the clock speed of a single processor
> > core or the number of physical cores?
> > For example, which is the better choice:
> > 8x2.2 GHz or 4x3.8 GHz
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Mike
>
> I always prefer the performance per core. Even if bird3 is
> multi-threaded, you’ll always have some locks between the threads (eg.
> compute and actual next-hop from BGP using OSPF).
> And on pure routing, the higher the frequency is, the fastest the packet
> is routed.
>
> --
> Alarig
>
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