dperf - a 100Gbps network load tester

dperf is a 100Gbps network load tester based on DPDK. In a single server, it can generate:

• tens of millions of new connections per second (CPS),
• hundreds of millions of packets per second (PPS),
• billions of concurrent connections (CC),
• hundreds of Gbps of throughput (TPS).

It supports HTTP, TCP, UDP, IPV4, IPV6, VLAN, VXLAN. It is great for testing layer 4 load balancers and network interfaces.

Supported platforms

• CPU: X86-64, ARM64, LoongArch.
• OS: Linux.
• NIC: DPDK Supported NICs.
• DPDK versions: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Documentation

• Configuration
• Design
• Build
• Statistics

Related Articles

Hot

• dperf 1.7.0 release note
• DPDK Summit 2023: slide video
• dperf FAQ

Set up DPDK

• Compiling DPDK-19.11
• Compiling DPDK-22.11.1
• DPDK Compilation: Support Mellanox Network Interface
• Configuring Huge Pages for DPDK
• Binding Network Interfaces for DPDK

Set up dperf

• Compiling dperf on DPDK-20.11
• Compiling dperf on DPDK-21.11
• Compiling dperf on DPDK-23
• Compiling dperf on Ubuntu 22.04
• dperf Quick Start
• How to set up dperf
• How to install dperf on ubuntu(zh)

Performance Testing

• dperf Performance Testing (Basic)
• dperf Performance Testing (Advanced)
• Using dperf to test 1M PPS elephant flow
• Benchmark AWS EC2's Network PPS by dperf
• Benchmark Google Cloud Compute Engine's Network PPS by dperf
• Using dperf to test the performance of DPVS(zh)
• DPVS v1.9.2 Performance Tests by dperf
• Using dperf to test network bandwidth
• Using dperf to test 100Gbps bandwidth(zh)

Features and Internals

• Using dperf as a Traffic Generator
• Sending Packets to a Large Number of IPs Using dperf
• How dperf Utilizes the Symmetric RSS
• Testing Network Latency with dperf
• How dperf Calculates Real CPU Usage
• Running dperf in Docker
• Using dperf to Test Nginx Performance
• Using dperf's KNI Feature
• Running dperf as a HTTP server
• Using dpdk-pdump to capture packets from dperf

Download

• dperf-dev
• dperf-1.7.0
• dperf-1.6.0
• dperf-1.5.0
• dperf-1.4.0
• dperf-1.3.0
• dperf-1.2.0
• dperf-1.1.0
• dperf-1.0.0

Development guide

• Code style

Who is using dperf

• Alibaba Cloud
• Baidu Cloud
• Bytedance
• China Mobile
• DPVS – a high performance Layer-4 load balancer based on DPDK.

If you would like to add your project or company to the user list, please email the maintainer.

Patent

• Jianzhang Peng(2024). Testing Method and Apparatus for Network Devices. CN114205274B. Issued June 11, 2024.

Author

Jianzhang Peng. I got a Ph.D. in computer networks from USTC. I previously worked as a staff engineer in the load balancing team at Baidu Cloud, where I developed dperf. I have left Baidu, but I am still maintaining the dperf project. At present, my primary research is focused on low-latency network architecture for cypto quantitative trading systems.