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Date:      Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:12:45 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Intel multicore queue management device
Message-ID:  <201611101613.JAA27341@mail.lariat.net>

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IEEE Spectrum just published an article regarding new inter-core 
communications hardware developed by researchers at UNC funded by Intel:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/breaking-the-multicore-bottleneck

The article doesn't go into great detail, but suggests that the new 
hardware might be useful to accelerate network packet processing -- 
perhaps especially in FreeBSD, whose unique Netgraph drivers are 
already set up to handle packets in a similar fashion.

Could this be fodder for a future FreeBSD Foundation-sponsored coding effort?

--Brett Glass




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