dispatch most functionality of ether_input to protocol threads

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :Hi,
> :
> :Following patch dispatch most ether_input functionality to protocol threads:
> :http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/ether_input2.diff
> :
> :...
> :
> :I have done some tests with em.  Bridge and normal operation works
> :with the patch.  Hopefully, I could adapt vlan and fastforwarding
> :before this release.  After this release, I plan to switch ether_input
> :to use ether_input_chain2 in this patch and move on to parallelize
> :ipfw.
> :
> :Since the new code is not built by default, I want to commit it soon,
> :if no one objects.
> :
> :Best Regards,
> :sephe
> :
> :--
> :Live Free or Die
>
>    It looks good.  I agree we need to cut down the abstraction a bit
>    in that area.  We definitely want to just figure out the cpu and get
>    the packet onto that cpu ASAP.
>
>    We need to be careful about the 2.0 release.  This coming week is
>    the last full week we have to do any really major surgery on the kernel.
>    I want us to have a good two weeks in July for testing leading up to
>    the release.

OK, I will limit the vlan and fastforwarding adaption to my local tree :)

Best Regards,
sephe

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