Jan Engelhardt a écrit : > On Sunday 2009-04-05 12:01, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> This could probably be solved using a single "table" containing >> rules only, that could be shared for every cpus. Only counters >> should be percpu. This should save a lot of ram, over previous >> situation (2.6.29 or current one) > > Why would counters stay separate? > > I recognize all of this table copying is related to do NUMA > optimizations, and I think I heard cache bouncing too somewhere else. > > [ http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=119903624211253&w=2 ] > > Not only NUMA, but SMP too. counters are integrated in rules themselves. So in order to avoid ping pongs between cpus, we choose to allocate one copy of rules/counters per cpu. But with some changes, we could let the rules read-only and shared by all cpus, and shadow counters only on percpu variables, thus reducing memory costs. -- 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
