Donation request for network SMP development

Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) writes in about what's needed for further SMP improvements in the network stack:

If you've been following my contributions to OpenBSD's kernel, youalready know that in the past years I've been working on the NetworkStack to make it more SMP friendly.

All the network hackers present at s2k15 agreed to volunteer me to workon the next step: properly integrate the pseudo-drivers (carp(4), vlan(4), trunk(4)...) in order to take ether_input() out of the kernellock.

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