[Oisf-devel] 77b708=WIN?

[Martin Holste]

Lol, no, autofp makes sense to me, but I kind of want to incite some
sort of argument in Will's living room for my own amusement.
Will--just remind him that his country can't handle SSL certificates
and his accent would be German if it weren't for us ;)

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net> wrote:
> On 09/27/2011 05:11 PM, Martin Holste wrote:
>>> Maybe I just misunderstand you, but runmode single is using a single
>>> packet processing pipeline. If you need more I suggest autofp.
>>>
>> If I understood Will correctly, the single runmode for PF_RING was
>> because PF_RING already does all of the flow distribution, so you want
>> as close to n number of singles as possible to keep all of the threads
>> related to a given flow on the proper CPU.  I don't know if that's
>> been corrected in autofp now.
>>
>
> I just yelled at Will (staying at his place currently) for misusing the
> "single" name for it. Single is meant to have a single packet processing
> pipeline in a single thread, and certainly not multiple of those. I just
> got confused by the same. Any suggestions for a better name of this runmode?
>
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