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

[Avi Kivity]

Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi Jörn,
>
> 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.
>   
But the interrupt for a packet can be received by cpu 0 whereas the rest 
of processing proceeds on cpu 1; so it still helps to keep the producer 
index and consumer index on separate cachelines.

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