Performance comparison 22.1 vs 21.7?

[rungekutta]

Hi all,
I’m itching to upgrade to 22.1 particularly for FreeBSD 13 and the potential performance improvements that come with it. Curious - has anyone measured and done this comparison in OpnSense?

My setup is 10Gb WAN and mix 10Gb/1Gb LAN, Chelsio T520 dual 10Gb and Intel I350-T4 passthrough in Proxmox VM, Ryzen 3700x 8 cores on AMD X470, not much else running on the same box. My throughput currently tops out around 4-5Gb/s but I should be able to get more.

[senser]

In a perfect world the development team would have some testautomation for this.
Maybe they do but keep those numbers secret?
One can dream

[bimbar]

Good testing equipment is, unfortunately, quite expensive.

[RamSense]

I read one earlier here:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=26559.msg128279#msg128279

[rungekutta]

Thanks, that looks a bit promising, some 15% gain or so.

And yes, agree on the test automation. That would also catch accidental regression. I understand that catching all cases and edge cases would be complex, but some relatively basic throughout testing on a few sets of typical hardware sounds like something a devops whiz could pull together relatively easily? ;-)

[rungekutta]

I guess I can add for completeness. Upgraded today, performance unchanged as far as I can measure it. Forwarding throughput still tops out just south of 5Gb/s for me.