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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:41:23 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Venkatesh.Babu@nokia.com
Cc:        joseph.koshy@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Multiprocessing for network protocol stack
Message-ID:  <41757BF3.8030005@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <F252EE46074AB645B4F44947EEAD57270125456D@mvebe001.americas.nokia.com>
References:  <F252EE46074AB645B4F44947EEAD57270125456D@mvebe001.americas.nokia.com>

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Venkatesh.Babu@nokia.com wrote:

> I looked at the following document, it gives the overview of the 5.x
>changes but it has little information on parallelizing the protocol
>stack. There are only 3 sentences and which says different concepts like
>per-CPU split of packets and connections are used. I am looking for more
>details.
>
> "Predictable Parallel Protocol Processing" paradigm is useful in
>cases where predictable delay is of importance. Typically useful for the applications like video-on-demand, distributed multi-player games and video conferences. For more information refer the following paper -
>http://www.artes.uu.se/project/P2-9805.pdf
>

Ah he's talking about protocol specific maximum bounded latency.. :-)

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> VBabu
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