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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Dave Taht <dave@taht.net> wrote:
> Not moi? :)

You too, of course!

>
> My take on things was basically not even try to do multicore on single
> flows but to start by divvying up things into tons of queues, and try to
> keep those flows entirely on the core they started with.

Yes, this is the traditional approach taken, but it doesn't work well
for accelerating the crypto of say, a single file downloading or
somebody watching youtube. I don't want these pegged to a single core.

Jason