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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Linux containers networking: performance and scalability of kernel modules

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This work benchmarked three kernel modules: veth, macvlan and ipvlan, to quantify their respective raw TCP and UDP performance and scalability and shows that the macvlan kernel module outperforms all other solutions in raw performance.

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