Bird 3.0 Benefits

[Cybertinus]

Hello Jesse,

For me the main advantage of Bird 3.0 is that it will support multicore 
for BGP sessions. Currently (both Bird 1.6 and 2.0) process BGP messages 
on a single core, which can be a performance bottleneck. The last time 
when I got new routers I picked routers with a very high single core 
process speed, not a lot of cores. Specifically for this reason. But 
going to multicore with Bird would be great!

Currently Bird 3.0 is in alpha state, specifically 3.0alpha0 is the 
current release, they are working on a second 3.0 alpha release, called 
3.0alpha1. So, it is all still in early development. Running it in 
production is thus not recommended, but testing with it will be 
appreciated by the Bird project.

Kind regards,
Cybertinus

On 04-04-2023 23:37, Jesse Mac Dougall via Bird-users wrote:
> I am curious to see the benefits of bird 3.0 compared to 2.x.  I don't 
> see
> anything posted on https://bird.network.cz/.  Is bird 3.0 in beta 
> phase?
> 
> This is my first time using bird so I am contemplating if I should 
> upgrade
> to bird 3.0 or stick with bird 2.x.