Re: IPFW in CURRENT: SMP-friendly?

From: O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:48:28 +0100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:35 UTC

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