Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 08:41:27 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: jtk@titania.net Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Sticky" Processes Message-ID: <8564.881307687@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 4 Dec 97 18:28:53 Central Standard Time" References: <Chameleon.881282557.jtk@dega.titania.net>
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> A recent paper given at SigComm97 has revived my interest in using > FreeBSD as a router platform. > > Check out: > > http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm97/papers/p192.pdf Ah yes, the Degermark et al. paper. It's already become rather well known in networking circles. > It would be interesting to see how this can be implemented in > an SMP environment. I essence holding the routing table lookup in > cache on one processor during high demand. > > The implications of this paper are, to say the least, interesting. You'd need to do a *lot* of work on the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack to be able to *use* two million forwarding decisions per second, though. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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