Accelerating OpenVSwitch for ludicrous speed

https://networkheresy.com/accelerating-open-vswitch-to-ludicrous-speed/

For Open vSwitch to be successful, it not only must be highly programmable and general, it must also be blazingly fast.  For the past several years, our development efforts have focused on precisely this tension — building a software switch that does not compromise on either generality or speed.

This article shows some of the most important achievements OpenVSwitch has done in the last years and their impact in performance. As you probably know, OpenVSwitch is the most popular platform in the SDN arena, and the main Neutron plugin for OpenStack network virtualization.