On Thursday 2010-03-25 11:35, Patrick McHardy wrote: >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. One 12-series request has been sitting there for a while. Was there something not in order with it? -- 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
