Subject: Re: Interrupt, interrupt threads, continuations, and kernel lwps
To: None <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/21/2007 21:21:15 
You raise valid points.  Let me toss a countervailing point into the
mix: if the more expensive processing is done at by a thread, it
becomes possible to have multiple (software) IPsec threads -- one per
core -- for parallel decryptions, multiple ipinput/tcpinput threads,
etc.