From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: NFQUEUE balancing extension (userspace changes) Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:28:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4A29015E.5020307@trash.net> References: <1244164679-11032-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Westphal Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:55344 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858AbZFEL2a (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 07:28:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1244164679-11032-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Florian Westphal wrote: > Hello list, > > this adds a new revision of the NFQUEUE target. > > In particular, a new "--queue-balance" option, which allows to > specify a range of queues to use. > Packets are then balanced across the given queues by the kernel. > > This is useful for multicore systems: > start multiple instances of the userspace program on queues > x, x+1, .. x+n and use "--queue-balance x:x+n". > > As for naming, if you'd prefer a different name (or just extend > the existing --queue-num option to accept "firstid:lastid" instead), > please let me know and I'll be happy to change it. > > Both paches can also be pulled from > git://git.breakpoint.cc/fw/iptables.git nfq-balance Thanks, I'll wait with pulling these until we've made the iptables release for 2.6.30.