BIRD multithreaded progress

[Maria Matejka]

Hello!

I hope for something (Pipe and RPKI in threads) very, very soon. For 
now, it is the "sark" branch. And currently, on my local machne, I have 
an unstable version running BGP in threads.

That said, there are still some cryptic bugs in multithreaded BGP to be 
addressed. Also, several blog posts are waiting until I find some time 
and determination to read them once again, finish them and push them for 
publishing.

There will be also probably a long pause in multithreaded development 
after Pipe+RPKI+BGP to allow for stabilizing these and merging with the 
2.0.x branch. There is also a long backlog of feature requests to be 
implemented before other protocols get their own threads.

Maria

On 1/26/22 10:09 PM, Douglas Fischer wrote:
> Hey Maria and everyone else.
> 
> Any updates on this multithreading mission?
> 
> Could we hope for something in this quarter?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Em sex., 26 de nov. de 2021 às 14:19, Maria Matejka 
> <maria.matejka at nic.cz <mailto:maria.matejka at nic.cz>> escreveu:
> 
>     Hello!
> 
>     If you are brave, you can try out the alderney branch. I suppose there
>     are still lots of bugs and inefficiencies, yet pipes, table maintenance
>     and rpki loading is multithreaded there.
> 
>     That branch is still in internal testing and I do not recommend using
>     that branch in production at all. It has been quite a huge load of
>     work,
>     including major rewrites of route propagation machinery.
> 
>     Feel free to test the "alderney" branch and report any bugs. If you
>     manage to measure the time and memory consumption difference, you're
>     welcome to share that.
> 
>     Thank you for asking, I hope we push this to a release as soon as
>     possible.
> 
>     Maria
> 
>     On 11/26/21 6:11 AM, Ross Tajvar wrote:
>      > Hi BIRD team,
>      >
>      > I have been periodically checking the cz.nic blog for more posts
>     in the
>      > "BIRD multithreading" saga, but the latest one was about 5.5
>     months ago
>      >
>     (https://en.blog.nic.cz/2021/06/14/bird-journey-to-threads-chapter-2-asynchronous-route-export/
>     <https://en.blog.nic.cz/2021/06/14/bird-journey-to-threads-chapter-2-asynchronous-route-export/>
> 
>      >
>     <https://en.blog.nic.cz/2021/06/14/bird-journey-to-threads-chapter-2-asynchronous-route-export/
>     <https://en.blog.nic.cz/2021/06/14/bird-journey-to-threads-chapter-2-asynchronous-route-export/>>).
> 
>      > Has any more progress been made on this? I understand the team is
>     busy
>      > and I'm not trying to push, but I enjoy reading these posts and
>     keeping
>      > up with the work being done.
>      >
>      > Best,
>      > Ross
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Douglas Fernando Fischer
> Engº de Controle e Automação