From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tarkan Erimer Subject: Re: 10GbE Connectivity & Netfilter Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:22:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4F604752.3020608@f-secure.com> References: <4F5F49FC.1080207@f-secure.com> <201203131510.32083.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" To: Thomas Jarosch Return-path: Received: from fsmail-out.f-secure.com ([193.110.108.171]:56601 "EHLO fsmail-out.f-secure.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751758Ab2CNHXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:23:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201203131510.32083.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/13/2012 04:10 PM, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > On Tuesday, 13. March 2012 15:02:13 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> 1- Is netfilter subsystem multi-threaded/multi-core enabled ? So that, >>> it can spread the loads across the CPUs/Cores. >> Like most kernel subsystems, it is. >> >>> 2- Can it handle such loads consistently (without any >>> issues/bottlenecks) as I've mentioned above ? >> Question is more like, can your hardware handle it. > On that note, Holger Eitzenberger's irqd might be worth a look: > https://github.com/vaesoo/irqd#readme > > http://workshop.netfilter.org/2011/wiki/images/6/69/Nfws2011-multiqueue-and-rps.pdf > > Thomas > Hmmm... Really interesting documents. Definitely, what I was looking for! Thanks a lot! Cheers, Tarkan