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+.. _performance:
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+Performance
+===========
+
+Overview
+^^^^^^^^
+
+One of the benefits of FD.io VPP, is high performance on relatively low-power computing, this performance is based on the following features:
+
+* A high-performance user-space network stack designed for commodity hardware.
+
+  - L2, L3 and L4 features and encapsulations.
+
+* Optimized packet interfaces supporting a multitude of use cases.
+
+  - An integrated vhost-user backend for high speed VM-to-VM connectivity.
+  - An integrated memif container backend for high speed Container-to-Container connectivity. 
+  - An integrated vhost based interface to punt packets to the Linux Kernel. 
+
+* The same optimized code-paths run execute on the host, and inside VMs and Linux containers.
+* Leverages best-of-breed open source driver technology: `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>`_.
+* Tested at scale; linear core scaling, tested with millions of flows and mac addresses.  
+
+These features have been designed to take full advantage of common micro-processor optimization techniques, such as: 
+
+* Reducing cache and TLS misses by processing packets in vectors. 
+* Realizing `IPC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle>`_ gains with vector instructions such as: SSE, AVX and NEON.
+* Eliminating mode switching, context switches and blocking, to always be doing useful work.  
+* Cache-lined aliged buffers for cache and memory efficiency.
+
+
+Packet Throughput Graphs
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+These are some of the packet throughput graphs for FD.io VPP 18.04 from the CSIT `18.04 benchmarking report <https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1804/report/>`_.   
+
+.. toctree::
+
+    current_l2_throughput.rst    
+    current_ndr_throughput.rst
+    current_ipv4_throughput.rst
+    current_ipv6_throughput.rst
+
+Trending Throughput Graphs
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
+
+These are some of the trending packet throughput graphs from the CSIT `trending dashboard <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/introduction/index.html>`_. **Please note that**, performance in the trending graphs will change on a nightly basis in line with the software development cycle.
+
+.. toctree::
+
+    trending_l2_throughput.rst
+    trending_ipv4_throughput.rst
+    trending_ipv6_throughput.rst
+
+For More information on CSIT 
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+These are FD.io Continuous System Integration and Testing (CSIT)'s documentation links.
+
+* `CSIT Code Documentation <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/doc/overview.html>`_
+* `CSIT Test Overview <https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1804/report/introduction/overview.html>`_
+* `VPP Performance Dashboard <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/introduction/index.html>`_