From: Imre Palik <imrep.amz@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:32:24 +0100 > From: "Palik, Imre" <imrep@xxxxxxxxx> > > The netfilter code is made with flexibility instead of performance in mind. > So when all we want is to pass packets between different interfaces, the > performance penalty of hitting netfilter code can be considerable, even when > all the firewalling is disabled for the bridge. > > This change makes it possible to disable netfilter both on a per bridge basis, > or for the whole bridging subsystem. In the case interesting to us, this can > lead to more than 10% speedup compared to the case when only bridge-iptables > are disabled. > > Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@xxxxxxxxx> Sorry, no. If I apply this, someone is going to try to submit a patch for every damn protocol layer to add a stupid hack like this. Makw NF_HOOK() faster instead.
