Bird and cpu clock / cores.

[Alarig Le Lay]

It’s also what I understood.

On Sun 02 Nov 2025 07:40:12 GMT, Mike Neo wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >