 3 first cases, but mutual TLS and the extra proxy adds noticeable latency.</p><h3 id=cpu-utilization>CPU utilization</h3><p>The CPU usage was collected for all Istio components as well as for the sidecars during the runs. For a fair comparison, CPU used by Istio was normalized by the throughput obtained for a given run. The results are shown in the following graph:</p><figure style=width:75%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:53.96174863387978%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.1