Re: [Wireshark-dev] Idle Thoughts on Parallelized Packet Dissection

2012-05-13 Thread Jakub Zawadzki
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:33:56AM -0400, Evan Huus wrote: > Please ask questions and provide feedback, I'm sure there are things > I've missed. > > Thoughts? Sounds too complicated for me :) I've always wanted to write some PoC for multithreaded wireshark, but something simpler, like refilterin

[Wireshark-dev] Idle Thoughts on Parallelized Packet Dissection

2012-05-13 Thread Evan Huus
This is a topic that's been stewing in the back of my brain for a while now, but it's cooked enough that I think it's worth getting feedback on. This is a long, (overly) detailed email - read with caution :) tl;dr; I think it's possible to support parallelized (multi-threaded) packet dissection in