IPFW in CURRENT: SMP-friendly?
Gleb Smirnoff
glebius at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 7 15:48:35 UTC 2013
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:31:19PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
O> There is work going on to move the OpenBSD pf(1) towards a more SMP
O> friendly entity - this reduces CPU load and should raise throughput.
O>
O> Are there any plans for FreeBSD "native" packet filter IPFW2 to gain the
O> same? Or, to ask it differently, IS ipfw(1), the freeBSD native
O> packetfilter, already SMP friendly and so better suited for multicore
O> architectures?
Yes, it is already not under a single lock for a long time.
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