IEEE Spectrum just published an article regarding new inter-core
communications hardware developed by researchers at UNC funded by Intel:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/breaking-the-multicore-bottleneck
The article doesn't go into great detail, but suggests that the new
hardware might be useful to accelerate network packet processing --
perhaps especially in FreeBSD, whose unique Netgraph drivers are
already set up to handle packets in a similar fashion.
Could this be fodder for a future FreeBSD Foundation-sponsored coding effort?
--Brett Glass
_______________________________________________
freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
