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- Continuous traffic results are more consistent across runs compared to RFC2544-throughput test.
- The inconsistency across the runs in RFC2544 cases can be explained by the way the binary-search algorithm works - and, this can be used to argue about the importance of adaptive RFC2544 Binary-search algorithm in virtualized environments.
- Due to cross-numa traffic flow, scenarios 2, 3 and 8, as expected, performs poorer compared to other scenarios.
- When the NICs are mapped to both the NUMAs - with pmd-cores also present - the performance is similar across all movements of VNF cores. The scenarios 4, 5 and 6 represent these cases. However, among these, Scenario-6 is relatively poorer as its cores are split across NUMAs, and the chances are that only one of them would be used effectively.
- Scenarios 1, 7 and 9 are the best cases - with minimal to none cross-numa effects.
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