On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Henning Brauer <hb-open...@ml.bsws.de> wrote: > * Franco Fichtner <slash...@gmail.com> [2014-07-06 00:29]: >> Missing SMP support is the fork in the road. The window of opportunity >> seems to be closing. A penny for Henning's thoughts on this... > > my thoughts are only worth pennies? :) > > ok, first thought: where's your diff? Not directed at Franco > specifically. > > I don't owe anybody anything. OpenBSD hacking is supposed to be fun > for me. > > on a technical note - making pf MP is utterly useless if the > underlaying subsystems aren't. pool isn't, mbuf isn't, network stack > isn't - the list is long.
Where to start ? prediction tends to show the base speed of processing unit is reaching a maximum and multicores is the next things. The network stack ? mbuf ? > > And the possible pf MP gains are drasticly overrated anyway. > > -- > Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org > BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP > Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully > Managed > Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
