IPFW in CURRENT: SMP-friendly?
O. Hartmann
ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Thu Mar 7 16:48:30 UTC 2013
Am 03/07/13 16:48, schrieb Gleb Smirnoff:
> 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.
>
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Oliver
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