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Re: DPDK and energy efficiency


From: Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa () ieee org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:04:37 +0100


Probably yeah.  Have you assessed the lifetime cost of running a
multicore CPU at 100% vs at 10%, particularly as you're likely to have
multiples of these devices in operation?


Spot on.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 6:07 PM Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:

Shane Ronan wrote on 23/02/2021 16:59:
For use cases where DPDK matters, are you really concerned with power
consumption?

Probably yeah.  Have you assessed the lifetime cost of running a
multicore CPU at 100% vs at 10%, particularly as you're likely to have
multiples of these devices in operation?

Nick



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