Performance Analysis of Different Length Packets Processing by Network Processor Based Application

In this work, we present a new methodology to calculate the available compute budget which determines how much processing the network processor can perform on each packet with different length. To evaluate the method, we also did a wide range of tests with different length packets. Then we analysis the MicroEngine states with the test results, which is useful in building the applications on network processors and evaluating its performance. We also give several solutions to solving the applications' performance bounds such as latency bound and compute bound, which are caused by variable length packets