Is this work part of what's needed to enable the FreeBSD equivalent of TNAPI?
I know we've got polling. And probably MSI-X in a couple drivers. Pretty sure there is still one CPU doing the interrupt work? And none of the multiple queue thread spreading tech exists? http://www.ntop.org/blog http://www.ntop.org/TNAPI.html TNAPI attempts to solve the following problems: * Distribute the traffic across cores (i.e. the more core the more scalable is your networking application) for improving scalability. * Poll packets simultaneously from each RX queue (contraty to sequential NAPI polling) for fetching packets as fast as possible hence improve performance. * Through PF_RING, expose the RX queues to the userland so that the application can spawn one thread per queue hence avoid using semaphores at all. TNAPI achieves all this by starting one thread per RX queue. Received packets are then pushed to PF_RING (if available) or through the standard Linux stack. However in order to fully exploit this technology it is necessary to use PF_RING as it provides a straight packet path from kernel to userland. Furthermore it allows to create a virtual ethernet card per RX queue. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
