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I re-architected Trisul after months of intense coding to be able to take advantage of multiple cores. I just want to share the approach I took for this project.
The options I evaluated were :

Flow pinning (like in Suricata, the new IDS engine)

Packets mapped to hardware thread  based on tuples

Work stealing

Hardware threads if idle, steal stuff [...]

Of late  I have been seeing a good number of Unbrowse SNMP customers using SNMPv3 INFORM messages. This is pleasantly surprising because I had written off this baby as being too complex to setup.
Here is an article explaining how to set up Unbrowse SNMP to receive and respond to SNMPv3 INFORM messages. It covers both [...]