Eric Dumazet wrote: > Here is patch I cooked for xt_hashlimit (on top of net-next-2.6) to make > it use RCU and scale better in your case (allowing several concurrent > cpus once RPS is activated), but also on more general cases. > > [PATCH] xt_hashlimit: RCU conversion > > xt_hashlimit uses a central lock per hash table and suffers from > contention on some workloads. > > After RCU conversion, central lock is only used when a writer wants to > add or delete an entry. For 'readers', updating an existing entry, they > use an individual lock per entry. This clashes with some recent cleanups in nf-next-2.6.git. I'm also expecting a patch from Jan to remove the old v0 revision very soon (probably today). Please rediff once I've pushed that out. -- 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
