[pinhead]

If you're interested in this also checkout netmap and vale: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/

[acd]

Agree Vale is fast, also fast are 6windgate DPDK.

DPDK has Openstack support, does Vale have Openstack support? Vale looks brilliant in that it takes away complexity yet is fast!

Link on Vale performance http://cnp.neclab.eu/vale#scalability