* Thomas Jacob > Some newer NICs (some of Intel's for instance) support several packet > queues to make it possible to deal with just this problem. > > Check out http://lwn.net/Articles/289137/ for a start... Interesting link, thanks! However, I was under the impression that the problem is incoming (RX) frames, that causes an interrupt to be raised on a certain CPU (core) which in turn causes the frame to be processed by that particular CPU by the NET_RX softirq handler. The multiqueue patch seem to be about being able to submit outgoing (TX) frames to multiple hardware queues. So I don't think it will make much of a difference for me? > It would be great if you'd let the list know of the results should you > try to use one of the multiqueue NICs for a netfilter firewall, I for > one am very curious... I'll remember that. Thanks again! Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
