From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Herbert Subject: Re: RPS and forwarding Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:44:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100426022415.GA20323@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([74.125.121.35]:36782 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750859Ab0DZEoK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:44:10 -0400 Received: from wpaz13.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz13.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.77]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o3Q4i7mN029696 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:44:07 +0200 Received: from pwj5 (pwj5.prod.google.com [10.241.219.69]) by wpaz13.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o3Q4i5fC013602 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:44:06 -0700 Received: by pwj5 with SMTP id 5so7044689pwj.34 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:44:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100426022415.GA20323@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Apart from not using RPS on routers, I suppose people doing > forwarding will simply have to maintain a constant RPS table, > and forgo its local redirection capabilities. > I think you'd want RPS on router (steering packets using hash and CPU mask). Most of your concerns are about RFS (steering by flows), which is probably more appropriate for a server. Tom > Cheers, > -- > Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ > Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >