On 04.06.2010 22:15, Eric Dumazet wrote: > NOTRACK makes all cpus share a cache line on nf_conntrack_untracked > twice per packet, slowing down performance. > > This patch converts it to a per_cpu variable. > > We assume same cpu is used for a given packet, entering and exiting the > NOTRACK state. That doesn't seem to be a valid assumption, the conntrack entry is attached to the skb and processing in the output path might get preempted and rescheduled to a different CPU. -- 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
