Summary

• A lightning fast tour of MP

  • Multi-processor system architectures
  • Operating system interactions with MP
  • SMPng architecture and primitives

• And the network stack on MP

  • The FreeBSD network stack
  • Changes made to the network stack to the network stack to allow it to run multi-threaded
  • Optimization concerns including locking cost and increasing parallelism
  • Concerns such as packet ordering