Ip Route Rule vs Firewall Mangle on Cpu Load

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Hello everyone,

Can someone please explain to me what is more efficient for cpu load. I have searched everywhere and can’t seem to find any answers to this. This is running on a x86 machine I built.

routing ~200 clients using /ip route rule matching src-address to lookup in 50 routing tables,
or
using /ip firewall mangle to match clients in address-lists and then mark-connection then mark-routing for the same 50 routing tables.

Thanks in advance!

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I think to mangle you need to turn fastrack off, and thus just guessing that ip route method is more optimal??

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Indeed, rules for Firewall Filter, Queues and Mangles are not applied for Fasttracked Traffic…
If you do not need the extra features that Mangles facility offers then just go with IP Route Rules…