Running the 'fw ctl affinity -s' command in Gateway Mode

Description

The fw ctl affinity -s command configures the CoreXL affinity settings on a Security Gateway for:

Notes:

Changes you make with this command do not survive the Security Gateway reboot. If you want the settings to survive reboot, do one of these:
- Manually edit the $FWDIR/conf/fwaffinity.conf configuration file.
- Run the sim affinity -s command (configures the affinity for interfaces only).
The fw ctl affinity -s command cannot configure affinity for interfaces, if you already configured affinity for interfaces with the SecureXL sim affinity command (in Automatic or Static mode).

Syntax

To see the built-in help:

fw ctl affinity
To configure the affinity for a specified interface by its name:

fw ctl affinity -s -i <Interface Name>

all

<CPU ID0> [ <CPU ID1> ... <CPU IDn> ]
To configure the affinity for a specified CoreXL FW instance:

fw ctl affinity -s -k <CoreXL FW Instance ID>

all

<CPU ID0> [ <CPU ID1> ... <CPU IDn> ]
To configure the affinity for a specified user-space process by its PID:

fw ctl affinity -s -p <Process ID>

all

<CPU ID0> [ <CPU ID1> ... <CPU IDn> ]
To configure the affinity for a specified user-space process by its name:

fw ctl affinity -s -n <Process Name>

all

<CPU ID0> [ <CPU ID1> ... <CPU IDn> ]

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`-i <`Interface Name`>`	Configures the affinity for the specified interface.
`-k <`CoreXL FW Instance ID`>`	Configures the affinity for the specified CoreXL FW instance.
`-p <`Process ID`>`	Configures the affinity for the Check Point user-space process (for example: fwd, vpnd) specified by its PID.
`-n <`Process Name`>`	Configures the affinity for the Check Point user-space process (for example: fwd, vpnd) specified by its name. Important - The process name is case-sensitive.
all	Configures the affinity for all CPU cores (numbers start from zero).
`<`CPU ID0`> ... <`CPU IDn`>`	Configures the affinity for the specified CPU cores (numbers start from zero).

Example 1 - Affine the interface eth1 to the CPU core #1

[Expert@MyGW:0]# fw ctl affinity -s -i eth1 1

eth1: CPU 1 - set successfully

Multi-queue affinity was not changed. For More info, see sk113834.

[Expert@MyGW:0]#

Example 2 - Affine the CoreXL FW instance #1 to the CPU core #2

[Expert@MyGW:0]# fw ctl affinity -s -k 1 2

fw_1: CPU 2 - set successfully

Multi-queue affinity was not changed. For More info, see sk113834.

[Expert@MyGW:0]#

Example 3 - Affine the process CPD by its PID to the CPU core #2

[Expert@MyGW:0]# cpwd_admin list | egrep "PID|cpd"

APP PID STAT #START START_TIME MON COMMAND

CPD 6080 E 1 [13:46:27] 17/9/2018 Y cpd

[Expert@MyGW:0]#

[Expert@MyGW:0]# fw ctl affinity -s -p 6080 2

Process 6080: CPU 2 - set successfully

Multi-queue affinity was not changed. For More info, see sk113834.

[Expert@MyGW:0]#

Example 4 - Affine the process CPD by its name to the CPU core #2

[Expert@MyGW:0]# fw ctl affinity -s -n cpd 2

cpd: CPU 2 - set successfully

Multi-queue affinity was not changed. For More info, see sk113834.

[Expert@MyGW:0]#