Bird and cpu clock / cores.

[Mike Neo]

And isn't it true that the speed of a single core is very important for
routing daemons (control plane), but less so for packet forwarding (data
plane), which can be parallelized between cores, especially in Linux?

niedz., 2 lis 2025 o 07:05 Mike Neo <neomikemac at gmail.com> napisał(a):

> 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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