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Shankarganesh chokkalingam
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How we achieved 629ns deterministic latency using eBPF/XDP and 5.1GHz Isolated Cores

🚀 We achieved 629 ns deterministic latency with eBPF/XDP + 5.1 GHz isolated cores

In high-frequency trading, AI training clusters, and 5G URLLC environments, every nanosecond matters.

Traditional Linux networking (iptables/nftables) adds ~5,000 ns latency with high jitter — creating expensive synchronization walls.

So we built Nano Privilaged Access management (NanoPAM) (AI Agentic PAM) — a transparent Layer-2 stealth bridge that moves full Privileged Access Management + token-bucket rate limiting directly into the XDP fast path.

Results on isolated 5.1 GHz cores:

  • P50 (Median): 629 ns
  • P99: 645 ns
  • Jitter variance: < 41 ns
  • ~8,000× faster than standard Netfilter

Full technical deep-dive (with architecture diagrams, benchmark tables, jitter graphs, CPU isolation details, and code) is here:

→ [Read the full story on Medium]https://medium.com/@reachshankarg/how-we-achieved-629ns-deterministic-latency-using-ebpf-xdp-and-5-1ghz-isolated-cores-90a15f3e81e1

GitHub repo (open source):

https://github.com/reachshankarg-byte/NanoPAM

Would love feedback from the community — especially on the XDP implementation, CPU isolation strategy, or any similar projects you're working on!

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Linux
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HFT
AI
Kernel
Networking
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