Re: Van Jacobson's net channels and real-time

[Jörn Engel]

On Sat, 22 April 2006 15:29:58 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Saturday, 22. April 2006 13:48, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > Unless I completely misunderstand something, one of the main points of
> > the netchannels if to have *zero* fields written to by both producer
> > and consumer. 
> 
> Hmm, for me the main point was to keep the complete processing
> of a single packet within one CPU/Core where this is a non-issue.

That was another main point, yes.  And the endpoints should be as
little burden on the bottlenecks as possible.  One bottleneck is the
receive interrupt, which shouldn't wait for cachelines from other cpus
too much.

Jörn

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