netfilter: add xt_cpu match

In some situations a CPU match permits a better spreading of
connections, or select targets only for a given cpu.

With Remote Packet Steering or multiqueue NIC and appropriate IRQ
affinities, we can distribute trafic on available cpus, per session.
(all RX packets for a given flow is handled by a given cpu)

Some legacy applications being not SMP friendly, one way to scale a
server is to run multiple copies of them.

Instead of randomly choosing an instance, we can use the cpu number as a
key so that softirq handler for a whole instance is running on a single
cpu, maximizing cache effects in TCP/UDP stacks.

Using NAT for example, a four ways machine might run four copies of
server application, using a separate listening port for each instance,
but still presenting an unique external port :

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -m cpu --cpu 0 \
        -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -m cpu --cpu 1 \
        -j REDIRECT --to-port 8081

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -m cpu --cpu 2 \
        -j REDIRECT --to-port 8082

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -m cpu --cpu 3 \
        -j REDIRECT --to-port 8083

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2010-07-23 12:59:36 +02:00
committed by Patrick McHardy
parent 7f1c407579
commit e8648a1fdb
5 changed files with 86 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ header-y += xt_TCPMSS.h
header-y += xt_TCPOPTSTRIP.h
header-y += xt_TEE.h
header-y += xt_TPROXY.h
header-y += xt_cluster.h
header-y += xt_comment.h
header-y += xt_connbytes.h
header-y += xt_connlimit.h
header-y += xt_connmark.h
header-y += xt_conntrack.h
header-y += xt_cluster.h
header-y += xt_cpu.h
header-y += xt_dccp.h
header-y += xt_dscp.h
header-y += xt_esp.h

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@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
#ifndef _XT_CPU_H
#define _XT_CPU_H
#include <linux/types.h>
struct xt_cpu_info {
__u32 cpu;
__u32 invert;
};
#endif /*_XT_CPU_H*/