Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#6M5JR)
The work to improve the capabilities of the network stack is about to take a noticeable step forward. In a message to tech@ titled parallel raw IP input, Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) posted a patch that he describes as
List: openbsd-techSubject: parallel raw IP inputFrom: Alexander Bluhm <bluhm () openbsd ! org>Date: 2024-04-11 20:24:39Hi,As mvs@ mentioned, running raw IP in parallel is easier as it isless complex than UDP. Especially there is no socket splicing.So I fixed one race in rip_input() and reused my shared net lockip_deliver() loop.