After finishing part 3 of my series on routing with VyOS on a Minisforum MS-01 mini-PC, I wasn’t entirely happy with the benchmark results. Sure, they showed that you can send 40 Gbps of HTTP traffic through a small PC running Linux on a laptop CPU, but I had no data at all on small-packet performance and I didn’t know how it scaled past 40 Gbps. Conventional wisdom holds that Linux’s kernel isn’t all that great at large amounts of small packets, so I figured I’d pull out bigger gun...
