Did they fix the threading and the timers?
Quagga uses DIY threading and a DIY timers implementation. Without fixing that we are not going anywhere.
A group of open networking companies have dispatched a fleet of X-Wing fighters in the direction of the biggest target in networking: Cisco. Under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, Orange, 6WIND, Architecture Technology, LabN Consulting, NetDEF (OpenSourceRouting), and Volta Networks have launched the …
Well I was thinking more along the lines: this is a VM hence we have all the overheads associated with transferring stuff between VM's and thus buffers/memory regions being moved between protection zones.
I would have thought that the natural place for performant SDN and thus FRR would be in the hypervisor's networking layer.