Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:15:25 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Venkatesh.Babu@nokia.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiprocessing for network protocol stack Message-ID: <41720DFD.2090709@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <F252EE46074AB645B4F44947EEAD572701254568@mvebe001.americas.nokia.com> References: <F252EE46074AB645B4F44947EEAD572701254568@mvebe001.americas.nokia.com>
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Venkatesh.Babu@nokia.com wrote: > We have a proprietary OS, which is a variant of FreeBSD 2.x and has extensive > changes to protocol stack. We are planning to migrate to the latest FreeBSD > like 4.x or 5.x to get multiprocessor support. So I am trying to evaluate > these options. > > How good the network protocol stack takes advantages of the multi processor > in 5.x ? > > What parallelizing paradigm (Connection level parallelism / Packet level > parallelism / processor per message / predictable parallel protocol > processing) is implemented for network protocol stack (like TCP/IP) in BSD > 5.x ? > > Are there any benchmarks on the performance analysis of network protocol > stack on multiprocessor system ? Parallelisation of teh network stacks is only in "beta" (so to speak) it works (mostly) but still has work to be done. It's a bit early to be basing decisions on numbers we are seeing now.. > > Thanks, VBabu _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, > send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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