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Re: Interrupt, interrupt threads, continuations, and kernel lwps

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Cc: Andrew Doran <ad@...>, Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@...>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@...>, Matt Thomas <matt@...>, <tech-kern@...>
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 10:21 pm

You raise valid points.  Let me toss a countervailing point into the
mix: if the more expensive processing is done at by a thread, it
becomes possible to have multiple (software) IPsec threads -- one per
core -- for parallel decryptions, multiple ipinput/tcpinput threads,
etc.
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Re: Interrupt, interrupt threads, continuations, and kernel ..., Joerg Sonnenberger, (Thu Feb 22, 5:59 pm)
Re: Interrupt, interrupt threads, continuations, and kernel ..., Steven M. Bellovin, (Wed Feb 21, 10:21 pm)
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