Le mardi 12 avril 2011 Ã 12:21 -0700, Justin Yaple a Ãcrit : > Hello, > > I am using a netfilter hook to capture "NF_IP_FORWARD" traffic and > route packets to my application in userspace. I want to implement > more queues to distribute softirqs between multiple CPUs. Is it > currently possible to "return NF_QUEUE" with a specific queuenum or is > this handled automatically if I create more queue handlers in my > application? > The key here is not NIC queue number but cpu number handling softirq You can use cpu match added in linux 2.6.36, if you make sure all packets for a given workflow are handled by an unique cpu Say you have 4 cpus to handle the incoming load, you create 4 queues and : iptables -A FORWARD ... -m cpu 0 -j ... iptables ... -m cpu 1 -j ... iptables ... -m cpu 2 -j ... iptables ... -m cpu 3 -j ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
