SMPng
With Robert Watson.
Mr Watson will present on SMPng, an on-going project to improve FreeBSD SMP performance and scalability that has been in the works for several years. He will introduce the architectural principles and approach to the SMPng Project, the FreeBSD network stack, and use the multi-threaded, SMP-capable FreeBSD network stack as a case study in applying SMPng to a large real-world kernel code base.
This talk will be appropriate for application and system developers with a basic understanding of network protocols and services, who are interested in learning about the BSD network stack and its extension to run in SMP environments.
Robert Watson
Robert Watson
is a Principal Research Scientist at McAfee Research, the security research
division of McAfee, Inc. As principal investigator and project leader, Mr
Watson has participated in a broad range of both US government and
commercial sponsored operating system and network security research
projects, including work on DNSSEC, active networks, the TrustedBSD MAC
Framework, distributed denial of service, and fault tolerant networking. In
his free time, Mr Watson is also a FreeBSD Core Team Member, FreeBSD
developer, and member of the board of directors of the FreeBSD Foundation,
where his activites include involvement in the day-to-day running of the
FreeBSD Project, and current technical lead of the network stack SMP locking
project.