Multiprocessing for network protocol stack

[Julian Elischer]

Venkatesh.Babu at 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 _______________________________________________ 
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