Re: netfilter load sharing

On May 14 2007 12:43, Thomas Fragstein wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> i have two questions.
>
> first: how i can see how many cpu load ist generate by
netfilter (iptables)
>
> second: on my linux box i have seen 20-30% of one cpu
is using by system. it is
> possible that netfilter can share the load over any
cores (multicore cpu)

I believe that on incoming packets, the CPU handling the
network card
interurpt will also serve the iptables and routing logic,
and on output,
the processor the program runs on that sent a packet. Not
sure, though.
CC/FWD to nf-dev, maybe they know.


	Jan
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