From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Shivani Bhardwaj <shivanib134@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft] src: evaluate: Show error for fanout without balance
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:13:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160407171317.GA6225@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160407093640.GA5034@shivani>
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:06:40PM +0530, Shivani Bhardwaj wrote:
> The idea of fanout option is to improve the performance by indexing CPU
> ID to map packets to the queues. This is used for load balancing.
> Fanout option is not required when there is a single queue specified.
>
> According to iptables, queue balance should be specified in order to use
> fanout, following that, throw an error in nftables if the range of
> queues for load balancing is not specified with the fanout option.
Curious, how does iptables behave when you pass fanout and a single
queue?
Could you also include how the nft error output looks like after your
patch in your description?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 9:36 [PATCH nft] src: evaluate: Show error for fanout without balance Shivani Bhardwaj
2016-04-07 17:13 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-04-07 17:18 ` Shivani Bhardwaj
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