Re: Optimizing tc filters

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à 13:16 -0500, John A. Sullivan III a écrit :
> Hello, all.  Given that there are several ways to direct packets into
> the appropriate queue, I was wondering which ways are generally more
> efficient.  There seem to be a number of email discussions but nothing
> authoritative.  From those discussions, it would seem that for most
> corporate usage (as in more traffic than a home user) we would have from
> most efficient to least efficient:
> 
> 1) Mark the connection with CONNMARK and us --restore-mark to mark all
> packets in the connection for classification via an fw filter
> 
> 2) Use the iptables CLASSIFY target
> 
> 3) u32 filter
> 
> 4) Mark individual packets and use an fw filter - one email thread says
> this is more efficient than #3
> 
> Is this correct?

Unfortunately CONNTRACK is a bit expensive...

If you control applications, you also can use SO_MARK from them.



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