Comments on: ipfw3: highspeed lockless in-kernel NAT

By: Abraham

Abraham — Thu, 17 May 2018 23:33:52 +0000

What major locks in Dragonflybsd still exist?

By: bycn82

bycn82 — Thu, 17 May 2018 23:04:00 +0000

1. RB tree for dynamic rules
2. RB tree and multidimentional array for NAT

By: mer

mer — Thu, 17 May 2018 22:04:53 +0000

That is a hard thing to test. differences would likely be hard to see if the number behind the NAT is small, then you have the size of the pipe to think about (if it’s big and you don’t have enough clients you may not hit any places that benefit from the changes.)

But all good stuff.