dispatch most functionality of ether_input to protocol threads

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

I have committed vlan adaptation, which is quite self contained.
However, fastforwarding adaptation will not go into repo before this
release.

Best Regards,
sephe

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