On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:28:21 +0100 (CET)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2012-01-31 00:46, David Zage wrote:
>
> >Has there been work on netfilter to take advantage of multiple cores
> >(e.g., concurrent packet processing)?
>
> Filtering runs on the same core as networking gives us. Therefore,
> consult with General Networking for RPS and RFS.
Lots of work has gone into eliminating locking when processing packets
on multiple cores. This makes multi-queue NIC's and RPS more efficient.
Also the semantics of rule evaluation are sequential.
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