Yu Xiangning wrote:
Hello OpenSolaris folks,I would like to open an OpenSolaris project - Packet Event Framework (PEF), on behalf of the PEF project team. The Packet Event Framework project is a follow-on to FireEngine, which will provide a framework for fine-grain modularity of the network stack based on the execution of a series of event functions as specified by the IP classifier. PEF will provide the following benefits: - Better observability as the framework will support dynamic changes to an event vector. - Improved performance due to: - Smaller code footprint by executing the code needed based on packet classification only. - Iterative execution of events which leads to smaller stack depth. - Fewer parses of the packet. Packet parsing is done once at classification time. - Support for multiple vertical perimeters(squeue_t), so a packet can traverse from one squeue_t to the next. Currently FireEngine supports a single IP squeue_t requiring packet processing to use both STREAMS based queuing and FireEngine IP squeue_t queuing. As a result, a packet can be processed totally within PEF and does not require any STREAMS processing. - CMT(Chip Multi-Threading) based processors will additionally benefit from the multiple squeue_t support through pipe-lined processing of a connection. Multiple cores and/or threads of a core can process different layers of the stack. Also, packet fanout of packets such that multiple packets can be simultaneously processed. Thanks in advance for your support! - yxn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
+1 Sounds like this will improve performance significantly, esp. as networks increase in performance faster than single cpu cores.... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
