On Monday, August 02, 2010 2:23:57 pm Brett Glass wrote: > The article at > > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180022/Latest_Linux_kernel_uses_Google_made_protocols > > describes SMP optimizations to the Linux kernel (the article > mistakenly calls them "protocols," but they're not) which steer the > processing of incoming network packets to the CPU core that is > running the process for which they're destined. (Doing this > requires code which straddles network layers in interesting ways.) > The article claims that these optimizations are Google's invention, > though they simply seem like a common sense way to make the best > use of CPU cache. > > The article claims dramatic performance improvements due to this > optimization. Anything like this in the works for FreeBSD?
You should talk to Robert Watson, he is working on something similar. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
