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From: Marek Kierdelewicz <marek@piasta.pl>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: netfilter performance dependent on arch
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:34:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207183453.522fa74b@catus> (raw)

Hi,

Can anyone point me to some performance comparison of netfilter on i686
and x86_64? I have a few linux routers doing a lot of firewalling and
QoS. Currently those routers use i686 arch on 64-bit hardware. Would I
notice any performance gain after moving to 64-bit kernel?

Next question. On some routers I don't need statefull firewall at all
and I have NOTRACT as a default rule in raw netfilter table. What is
the expected performance gain if I would fully disable conntrack
instead of using NOTRACK target? What would be the best approach to do
it on debian squeeze distribution kernel (nf_conntrack compiled as a
module)? Is blacklisting nf_conntrack module enough (to be safe in case
of accidental addition of statefull rule)?

best regards,
Marek Kierdelewicz

             reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 17:34 Marek Kierdelewicz [this message]
2012-02-07 18:23 ` netfilter performance dependent on arch Rick Jones
2012-02-07 18:54   ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2012-02-07 19:11     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-07 19:48       ` Marek Kierdelewicz

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