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From: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
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	Michael Shiu <mshiu@net-yan.com>
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Subject: Re: Does Netgraph in FBSD 5.x SMP requires GIANT lock?
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Maybe one giant2thread node could be introduced into the graphs. It could=
 put=20
the messages and the mbufs into a queue from a giant context, then they c=
ould=20
be processed from a thread.

Is it a possible architecture or do I forget something ?

Regards,
  Vincent

Le Jeudi 5 Juin 2003 13:38, Julian Elischer a =E9crit :
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Michael Shiu wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Just like to know if the netgraph code running 5.x SMP kernel require=
s
> > the GIANT lock?
>
> Netgraph has lovking  built into it but I have not
> had teh time yet to "thrown the switch" and run it without
> giant. (actually it would only have giant if the edge node that
> introduces the packet has giant, or if it's running
> as a net thread.)
>
> What is your graph like?
>
> > I have the netgraph doing bridging right now but the performance is
> > limited by the CPU (right now, it is something around 100k pkt/s in
> > 4-STABLE). Does adding another CPU together with upgrading to 5.x be =
of
> > any help? I guess the bottleneck right now is only one thread is
> > executing in interrupt context with GIANT being held. Am I right?
> >
> > _Michael
> >
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