Subject: Re: limited number if iptable rules on 64bit hosts

From: Bart De Schuymer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:33:51 +0100

Op do, 03-02-2005 te 11:00 -0800, schreef David S. Miller:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:59:28 +0100
> Olaf Hering <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> >  On Thu, Feb 03, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > > The rule itself is replicated per-cpu as well to keep L2 cache
> > > accesses local per cpu on SMP systems.
> > 
> > Andy made this change, which helped on a dual box.
> 
> It might not help for Olaf's 128 cpu box though :-)
> 
> I think reconsider the idea of replicating the rule itself per-cpu.
> Also, this thread should have begun with netfilter-devel at least on
> the CC:, added.

Note that ebtables only has per-cpu counters.
I wonder what limits are seen on such systems for ebtables.

cheers,
Bart