From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 20:41:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE1216A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:41:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C38A43D49 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:41:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3411D7A427; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <41757BF3.8030005@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:41:23 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Venkatesh.Babu@nokia.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org cc: joseph.koshy@gmail.com Subject: Re: Multiprocessing for network protocol stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:41:23 -0000 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.. :-) > > VBabu > > >