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Re: Packet Tunnel Provider - write packets to flow
eskimo Feb 19, 2017 1:44 PM (in response to roee84)Am I right to suspect this might cause the slowness?
I doubt it. While it’s true that creating an NSData from a buffer in the way you’ve shown will make a copy of the bytes in the buffer, I very much doubt that’s the biggest factor in your performance problem. It’s more likely to be related to the number of times that the data is bouncing in and out of the kernel, which is kinda unavoidable in the Network Extension provider model.
Investigating performance issues like this is not easy. I recommend you start by creating a rigorous performance metric. For example, you could create an app that sends data to a server on the local Wi-Fi, or vice versa. You’ll want to use UDP, not TCP, so you can focus on how packets flow through your VPN. You can then vary the frequency and size of these packets to see how the performance varies based on those factors. Based on that info you can start to optimise.
I suspect you’ll find that the size of the packets doesn’t really affect performance, which is evidence for my theory that these data copies aren’t the issue. However, that’s really just a guess, and I encourage you to not guess and instead actually test.
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Re: Packet Tunnel Provider - write packets to flow
roee84 Feb 19, 2017 11:45 PM (in response to eskimo)Will do, thanks for the advice
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