6.2-RELEASE does not use second CPU?

Alex Povolotsky tarkhil at webmail.sub.ru
Wed Apr 25 10:00:22 UTC 2007


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:08:57PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>   
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:54:52 +0400
>>> From: "Alexey Karagodov" <karagodov at gmail.com>
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>>
>>> and what is this, i mean why:
>>> WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as ipsec requires Giant
>>> WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance.
>>>       
>> I thought it was pretty clear. 
>>
>> ipsec is not multi-processor safe and requires the use of GIANT. If you
>> have IPSEC in your kernel the network stack will also be giant locked
>> which will cut performance.
>>     
>
> Yep, google for extensive discussion (hint: FAST_IPSEC)
>   

No visible changes in behaviour with FAST_IPSEC

Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.

mptable still shows ONE CPU

Alex.




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