Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: >> These calculations look somewhat expensive to perform for every message. >> Do you have any numbers for this new patch that shows the difference >> in CPU usage compared to the resizing done by af_netlink.c? > > Fabian Hugelshofer reported some reduction (~5%) on an embedded > environment but he was using top to measure the difference. I'll collect > some more trustable data and get back to you. Some oprofile results: wo/patch 2189 0.0305 nf_conntrack_netlink.ko nf_conntrack_netlink ctnetlink_conntrack_event w/patch 2302 0.0440 nf_conntrack_netlink.ko nf_conntrack_netlink ctnetlink_conntrack_event While __alloc_skb and netlink_broadcast report similar values for w/ and wo/ the patch. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
