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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:00:08 +0400
From:      Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Alexey Karagodov <karagodov@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2-RELEASE does not use second CPU?
Message-ID:  <462F26A8.5090500@webmail.sub.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20070420191105.GA38067@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <c7aff4ef0704201154u52bb054cs6f93067fbaa37a21@mail.gmail.com>	<20070420190857.9A34445058@ptavv.es.net> <20070420191105.GA38067@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:08:57PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>   
>>> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:54:52 +0400
>>> From: "Alexey Karagodov" <karagodov@gmail.com>
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>>>
>>> and what is this, i mean why:
>>> WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as ipsec requires Giant
>>> WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance.
>>>       
>> I thought it was pretty clear. 
>>
>> ipsec is not multi-processor safe and requires the use of GIANT. If you
>> have IPSEC in your kernel the network stack will also be giant locked
>> which will cut performance.
>>     
>
> Yep, google for extensive discussion (hint: FAST_IPSEC)
>   

No visible changes in behaviour with FAST_IPSEC

Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.

mptable still shows ONE CPU

Alex.





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