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Re: 2.4 kernel networking and SMP

To: jacoba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jacob Avraham)
Subject: Re: 2.4 kernel networking and SMP
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:43:41 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <00be01bfd270$20ee4700$180aa8c0@pentacom.com> from "Jacob Avraham" at Jun 10, 0 03:13:07 am
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Hello!

> Can you tell me what level of parallelism do I get from the networking
> layers (forwarding, filtering, NAT),

Infinite one. 8)

Seriously, it depends on network configuration. F.e. if router has only
two interfaces, more than two cpus will do no useful work,
but simly will break network reordering packets, if you
did not bind irqs to selected cpus.

Alexey

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