Re: NFQUEUE balancing extension (userspace changes)

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Florian Westphal wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> this adds a new revision of the NFQUEUE target.
> 
> In particular, a new "--queue-balance" option, which allows to
> specify a range of queues to use.
> Packets are then balanced across the given queues by the kernel.
> 
> This is useful for multicore systems:
> start multiple instances of the userspace program on queues
> x, x+1, .. x+n and use "--queue-balance x:x+n".
> 
> As for naming, if you'd prefer a different name (or just extend
> the existing --queue-num option to accept "firstid:lastid" instead),
> please let me know and I'll be happy to change it.
> 
> Both paches can also be pulled from
> git://git.breakpoint.cc/fw/iptables.git nfq-balance

Thanks, I'll wait with pulling these until we've made the iptables
release for 2.6.30.