dperf: High-Performance Network Load Testing Tool Based on DPDK

What dperf Can Do

• Tens of millions of new connections per second (CPS)
• Hundreds of millions of packets per second (PPS)
• Billions of concurrent connections (CC)
• Hundreds of gigabits per second of throughput (Gbps)

Supports HTTP, TCP, UDP, IPv4/IPv6, VLAN, VXLAN. Ideal for testing Layer 4 load balancers and NIC throughput.

Supported Platforms

• CPU: X86-64, ARM64, LoongArch
• OS: Linux
• NIC: DPDK Supported NICs
• DPDK versions: 17 through 25

Documentation

Getting Started

• Configuration
• Build
• Statistics
• FAQ

Setup

• Compiling DPDK-19.11
• Compiling DPDK-22.11.1
• Support Mellanox NIC
• dperf on DPDK-20.11
• dperf on DPDK-21.11
• dperf on DPDK-23
• dperf on Ubuntu 22.04
• Configuring Huge Pages
• Binding Network Interfaces
• Quick Start
• How to Setup dperf
• Install dperf on Ubuntu (zh)

Performance Testing

• Basic
• Advanced
• 1M PPS Elephant Flow
• AWS PPS
• GCP PPS
• DPVS with dperf (zh)
• DPVS Performance (iQIYI)
• Network Bandwidth
• Test 100Gbps (zh)

Advanced Features

• Traffic Generator
• Send to Many IPs
• Symmetric RSS
• Latency Testing
• Real CPU Usage
• Docker
• Test Nginx
• KNI Feature
• HTTP Server
• dpdk-pdump

Development Guide

• Code style

Download

• Latest Source (main)
• All Releases

Author

dperf is developed and maintained by Jianzhang Peng, Ph.D. in Computer Science from USTC. He is currently focused on low-latency network protocol stacks for quantitative trading systems.

Jianzhang Peng: Creating DPERF and Joining the DPDK Community

DPDK Summit 2023: Slide Video