From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Majid Khan" <majidkk@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netfilter and SMP
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:52:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605261952.50755.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a656c20605260823o1c894411t88a76c23d7855406@mail.gmail.com>
> Can somebody provide me with some information on how to configure my
> SMP system so that both processors share the network traffic load.
You would need multiple active incoming network interfaces.
Linux right now doesn't support load balancing from a single interrupt.
Even if it did that would likely require hardware support for MSI-X.
> My second question was that if there is any known method to gracefully
> handle failures in a netfilter module. Currently any failure in
> netfilter would cause the kernel panic.
Write a user space module using nf queue?
-Andi
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2006-05-26 15:23 Netfilter and SMP Majid Khan
2006-05-26 17:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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