Add multi-core concurrent packet processing #2234
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ZeroTier on multiple threads
This alpha-quality patch enables concurrent processing of packets in the RX and TX directions and appears to improve performance significantly in many situations (but also make some worse). It automatically scales thread count according to
std::thread::hardware_concurrency()
and can optionally be overridden at start time by setting theZT_PACKET_PROCESSING_CONCURRENCY
environment variable. You can enable CPU pinning at start time viaZT_CPU_PINNING=1
.This has only been tested on Linux and FreeBSD and is not fully implemented in macOS so don't even try.
Example usage (
ZT_PACKET_PROCESSING_CONCURRENCY
is entirely optional since it'll automatically use all cores):To force ZeroTier onto one thread: