[Openswan dev] OCF in SMP kernel

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Kabir Ahsan wrote:

> Is Openswan 2.4.11 or 2.4.12 tested in SMP linux for linux 2.6 without
> OCF?

Yes. and the pluto daemon starts more crypto and dns helpers on those.
NETKEY and KLIPS both work on smp machines.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McCullough [mailto:David_Mccullough at securecomputing.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:07 PM
> To: Paul Wouters
> Cc: Kabir Ahsan; Dev at openswan.org
> Subject: Re: [Openswan dev] OCF in SMP kernel
>
>
> Jivin Paul Wouters lays it down ...
> > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Kabir Ahsan wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone tried OCF in SMP mode for 2.6 kernel without any issues
> > > related to spinlocks?
> >
> > The latest OCF patch addressed some spinlock issues, see the patch at:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080529040202
> > .GA20425%40securecomputing.com
>
> That might help,  unfortunately it really doesn't get a lot of testing
> on SMP.
>
> It has been used on SMP, and had fixes applied for SMP, but most of the
> core use has that I work on has been single core embedded systems.
>
> I will gladly take SMP patches though ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Davidm
>
>

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