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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:46:24 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jian Qiu <swordqiu@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's the status of parallel netisr?
Message-ID:  <48CF6450.6020909@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <e8520310809151020j29b8870v3167cb2879e8543d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e8520310809151020j29b8870v3167cb2879e8543d@mail.gmail.com>

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Jian Qiu wrote:
> I noticed there was a project trying to parallelize netisr in SMP.
> 
> But I cannot find the relevant codes in either stable 7 or current 8.
> 
> I'm wondering what's the current status of this project?
> 
> When will it be merged into FreeBSD source tree?

It's available in a perforce branch owned by rwatson (sorry, I don't 
have the branch name handy), but in my tests it either produced no 
benefits, or actually reduced performance.  This is surprising and the 
reasons for this are still unknown.

Kris



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