Does 6WINDGate work as well on dual multi-core processor architecture?
Yes. The 6WINDGate Architecture Overview document can be downloaded from our Web site here. It has dedicated sections about distributed architectures. In case of a single multicore architecture, synchronization between the Linux networking stack and the fast path is handled through a shared memory. In dual multi core processor architecture, Linux is running on one processor, while the fast path is running on the other one. There is no shared memory between Linux networking stack and fast path. In such architecture, the fast path 1CP – 1FP module is required and allows synchronizing the Linux networking stack with the remote fast path through a network connection between the two processors. As a result, the 6WINDGate architecture can be equally deployed over: • shared cores of a single multicore processor, • two different multicore processors (one core being allocated to Linux and the other one to the fast path), • one multicore processor running the fast path and another, possibly non-
