netdev - Re: [PATCH] RPS: support 802.1q and pppoe session

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Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:58:25 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RPS: support 802.1q and pppoe session

Le jeudi 25 mars 2010 à 13:47 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :

> Yea, we do DPI in netfilter. And for a stateful fireware, connection
> tracking isn't cheap. As bandwidth increases, we find one CPU can't
> handle all the traffic from a single NIC. We currently use dynamic
> weighted packets distributing algorithm with patched Linux-2.6.18, and
> it works very well.
> 

Hmm... we added RCU to conntrack last year only, so with 2.6.18
conntrack hits a global lock.

tcp conntrack also uses another global lock, this is not yet converted,
even in 2.6.33.
How can this scale ?


> Oh, maybe I misunderstood you words. I thought the rxhash you want to
> clear is computed by get_rps_cpu()? I remembered some NIC itself can
> get 5-tuple from vlan and pppoe packets to compute hash. In that case,
> we should not clear rxhash.
> 

rxhash is provided/computed only if its possible, and stay 0 if its not
possible to compute it :)

AFAIK, at this point, no network driver currently provides a rxhash. If
you know some NIC can provide it, please submit a patch :)



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