Multiprocessing for network protocol stack

[Julian Elischer]

Venkatesh.Babu at 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.
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> "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.. :-)

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