What's the status of parallel netisr?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 16 07:46:16 UTC 2008


Jian Qiu wrote:
> I noticed there was a project trying to parallelize netisr in SMP.
> 
> But I cannot find the relevant codes in either stable 7 or current 8.
> 
> I'm wondering what's the current status of this project?
> 
> When will it be merged into FreeBSD source tree?

It's available in a perforce branch owned by rwatson (sorry, I don't 
have the branch name handy), but in my tests it either produced no 
benefits, or actually reduced performance.  This is surprising and the 
reasons for this are still unknown.

Kris


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