benchmarking tool ◦ Two pods run on the same node Configurations ◦ mTLS enabled ◦ Number of Envoy workers: 2 ◦ Response payload size: 1KB Latency ◦ 11-17% improvement Istio Meetup China Summary ● eBPF

setting is also very important for performance. ● Default -> 2 ● For minimal performance impact -> Workers = vCPU (1 worker/vCPU) ● Load test your workloads at different level of concurrency and resources