On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:28:21 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 2012-01-31 00:46, David Zage wrote: > > >Has there been work on netfilter to take advantage of multiple cores > >(e.g., concurrent packet processing)? > > Filtering runs on the same core as networking gives us. Therefore, > consult with General Networking for RPS and RFS. Lots of work has gone into eliminating locking when processing packets on multiple cores. This makes multi-queue NIC's and RPS more efficient. Also the semantics of rule evaluation are sequential. -- 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
