Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:48:28 +0400 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: IPFW in CURRENT: SMP-friendly? Message-ID: <20130307154828.GG48089@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <51388897.4080102@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <51388897.4080102@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:31:19PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: O> There is work going on to move the OpenBSD pf(1) towards a more SMP O> friendly entity - this reduces CPU load and should raise throughput. O> O> Are there any plans for FreeBSD "native" packet filter IPFW2 to gain the O> same? Or, to ask it differently, IS ipfw(1), the freeBSD native O> packetfilter, already SMP friendly and so better suited for multicore O> architectures? Yes, it is already not under a single lock for a long time. -- Totus tuus, Glebius.
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