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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Netfilter and SMP
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:52:50 +0200
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> 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