http://www.inliniac.net/blog/2009/02/28/oisf-engine-prototype-threading.html Everything inline. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.inliniac.net/blog/2009/02/28/oisf-engine-prototype-threading.html/comment-page-1#comment-13080 Victor Julien Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:58:22 +0000 http://www.inliniac.net/blog/?p=236#comment-13080 @Vivek Rajan: Using the option to set CPU (or core) affinity to the threads is possible to make sure all threads processing a single packet remain on the same CPU/core. @Vivek Rajan: Using the option to set CPU (or core) affinity to the threads is possible to make sure all threads processing a single packet remain on the same CPU/core.

]]> http://www.inliniac.net/blog/2009/02/28/oisf-engine-prototype-threading.html/comment-page-1#comment-13077 Vivek Rajan Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:25:17 +0000 http://www.inliniac.net/blog/?p=236#comment-13077 IMHO, this is the wrong way to approach packet processing on multicore. Passing half cooked packets from one thread to another will have cache impact which may severely degrade performance. You must strive to keep the cache of a given core warm, the best way is to use a task stealing approach (do your own or use Cilk or Intel TBB). IMHO, this is the wrong way to approach packet processing on multicore. Passing half cooked packets from one thread to another will have cache impact which may severely degrade performance. You must strive to keep the cache of a given core warm, the best way is to use a task stealing approach (do your own or use Cilk or Intel TBB).

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