Stephen Hemminger a écrit : > Not sure what the performance impact would be but simply changing tcp_lock > (in nf_conntrack_proto_tcp) to a spin_lock might get a performance boost. > I thought I heard Paul say read_locks are way slower than spin_lock. > > Alternatively, going to some form of bit based hash lock might work. > > I thought Patrick was OK with adding a spinlock into each nf_conn struct ? (We shrunk this struct with the rcu_head removal) A straight forward locking schem. We have spinlocks everywhere in kernel afterall, and conntracking deserves this. Just resubmit one of your prior patch perhaps ? I can dig it in a couple of hours eventually. Thanks -- 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
