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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:48:28 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: IPFW in CURRENT: SMP-friendly?
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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.

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