Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input

The work to improve the capabilities of the network stack is about to take a noticeable step forward. In a message to tech@ titled parallel raw IP input, Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) posted a patch that he describes as

List:       openbsd-tech
Subject:    parallel raw IP input
From:       Alexander Bluhm <bluhm () openbsd ! org>
Date:       2024-04-11 20:24:39

Hi,

As mvs@ mentioned, running raw IP in parallel is easier as it is
less complex than UDP.  Especially there is no socket splicing.

So I fixed one race in rip_input() and reused my shared net lock
ip_deliver() loop.

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