Em Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:12:08PM -0700, David Miller escreveu: > From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:51:06 -0700 > > perf showed netfilter being prominent, and removing it gives me much > > higher throughput. Is there a reason CONFIG_NETFILTER=y ? Isn't it a > > good thing to be able to disable netfilter if you want to? > > CONFIG_NETFILTER=y is the only possible non-disabled setting, as it's > a boolean. > > All that is enabling is the hooks, and it's not possible to provide > netfilter at all without the hooks being compiled into the kernel > image. > > Fedora by default is also probably installing several defauly > netfilter rules, make sure to remove them. Was there ever any attempt to try to have netfilter built-in but not causing the performance impact? Something like ftrace code changing when the user inserts the first rule? People wanting top performance disable it in the build, but thos wanting to stick to vendor provided kernels don't have that choice :) - Arnaldo _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
