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authorholger@eitzenberger.org <holger@eitzenberger.org>2013-03-23 11:04:03 +0100
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2013-04-02 01:25:44 +0200
commit8746ddcf12bb263ad240e095ef16531006caeb50 (patch)
treeca4f131f820d6cce4724f5471112624687f2bdd1 /include/uapi
parentnetfilter: use IS_ENABLE to replace if defined in TRACE target (diff)
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netfilter: xt_NFQUEUE: introduce CPU fanout
Current NFQUEUE target uses a hash, computed over source and destination address (and other parameters), for steering the packet to the actual NFQUEUE. This, however forgets about the fact that the packet eventually is handled by a particular CPU on user request. If E. g. 1) IRQ affinity is used to handle packets on a particular CPU already (both single-queue or multi-queue case) and/or 2) RPS is used to steer packets to a specific softirq the target easily chooses an NFQUEUE which is not handled by a process pinned to the same CPU. The idea is therefore to use the CPU index for determining the NFQUEUE handling the packet. E. g. when having a system with 4 CPUs, 4 MQ queues and 4 NFQUEUEs it looks like this: +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ |NFQ#0| |NFQ#1| |NFQ#2| |NFQ#3| +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ ^ ^ ^ ^ | |NFQUEUE | | + + + + +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ |rx-0 | |rx-1 | |rx-2 | |rx-3 | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ The NFQUEUEs not necessarily have to start with number 0, setups with less NFQUEUEs than packet-handling CPUs are not a problem as well. This patch extends the NFQUEUE target to accept a new NFQ_FLAG_CPU_FANOUT flag. If this is specified the target uses the CPU index for determining the NFQUEUE being used. I have to introduce rev3 for this. The 'flags' are folded into _v2 'bypass'. By changing the way which queue is assigned, I'm able to improve the performance if the processes reading on the NFQUEUs are pinned correctly. Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_NFQUEUE.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_NFQUEUE.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_NFQUEUE.h
index 9eafdbbb401c..8bb5fe657d34 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_NFQUEUE.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_NFQUEUE.h
@@ -26,4 +26,13 @@ struct xt_NFQ_info_v2 {
__u16 bypass;
};
+struct xt_NFQ_info_v3 {
+ __u16 queuenum;
+ __u16 queues_total;
+ __u16 flags;
+#define NFQ_FLAG_BYPASS 0x01 /* for compatibility with v2 */
+#define NFQ_FLAG_CPU_FANOUT 0x02 /* use current CPU (no hashing) */
+#define NFQ_FLAG_MASK 0x03
+};
+
#endif /* _XT_NFQ_TARGET_H */