Re: Some performance measurements on the FreeBSD network stack

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> Yes, but the lookup requires a lock?  Or is every entry replicated
> to every CPU?  So a number of concurrent CPU's sending to the same
> UDP destination would content on that lock?

No. In the default case it's per CPU, thus no serialization is
required. But yes, if your transmitting thread manages to bounce to
every core during send within the flow expiration window you'll have
an extra 12 or however many bytes per peer times the number of cores.
There is usually a fair amount of CPU affinity over a given unit time.


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