Apparently I just can’t end this series. It’d probably be easier if I didn’t keep learning more about performance and discovering that a lot of my earlier results we’re quite as accurate as I’d thought they were. Spectre/Meltdown and Router Performance VyOS’s page on VPP performance includes a few additional tuning settings that I hadn’t tried; most of those are specific to their hardware (NUMA tweaks, disabling hyperthreading, adjusting NIC RX/TX queues to fit the reduced numbe...