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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 11:00:49 -0800
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:59:28 +0100
Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:

>  On Thu, Feb 03, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > The rule itself is replicated per-cpu as well to keep L2 cache
> > accesses local per cpu on SMP systems.
> 
> Andy made this change, which helped on a dual box.

It might not help for Olaf's 128 cpu box though :-)

I think reconsider the idea of replicating the rule itself per-cpu.
Also, this thread should have begun with netfilter-devel at least on
the CC:, added.