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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: limited number if iptable rules on 64bit hosts
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:48:22 -0800
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:19:39 +0100
Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> wrote:

> At 3445 rules, tmp.size is 524272 (why does it want that much memory? I
> would expect the only data that's per-CPU is the packet and byte
> counters).

The rule itself is replicated per-cpu as well to keep L2 cache
accesses local per cpu on SMP systems.