Re: FreeBSD TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimizations

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01.08.2005, at 17:26, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    The BGL work on the network stack is very close.  There are two 
> queueing mechanisms that need to be locked up (sockbufs and IPQ), 
> after which we will basically be able to turn off the big giant lock 
> in the network protocol threads.  IPQ should be straightforward.  The 
> sockbufs are more of an issue but it should be possible to separate 
> the reader and writer sides of each sockbuf to avoid contention 
> between userland and the protocol stack.

and we need to lock down pfil or start parallelizing them (probably 
only pf, with newest version imported)

cheers
  simon

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