(limiting to users@) http://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/06/27/14275.html
pf, originating from OpenBSD, is single-threaded. This can - in some situations - hurt performance. Matthew Dillon made pf able to make use of multiple processors, which can - in some situations - help performance. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:09 PM, bycn82 <[email protected]> wrote: > *thanks for the hard work, well done! the lagg is really what I want :)* > > *By the way, in the "Packet Filter" section,* > *The pf firewall is now able to work in a concurrent manner on many CPUs.* > *But what does it mean? Anyone can help to explain this? what is the > benefit to have a PF which can concurrently manner on multiple CPUs? thanks > in advanced. It interested me.* > > *And also the LWKT is interesting for me, I am new here :)* > > *Regards,* > *bycn82* > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Justin Sherrill < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> DragonFly 4.0 has been released, and should be available at your nearest >> mirror. >> >> Release page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/ >> >> Download page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/ >> >> There's no 32-bit version for this release; support for it is being >> dropped. This should affect a very small number of systems, as 64-bit >> processors are plentiful now. >> >> The release page has the details, but this release will be especially >> useful for anyone with radeon/i915 chipsets. Those users will now enjoy >> hardware video acceleration and 3D support. >> > >
