Re: [PATCH 36/38] netfilter: connlimit: use keyed locks

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:00:08 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 13:42 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > connlimit currently suffers from spinlock contention, example for
> > 4-core system with rps enabled:
> 
> > +#define CONNLIMIT_SLOTS	256
> > +#define CONNLIMIT_LOCK_SLOTS	32
> 
> 
> 
> 32 spinlocks use 2 cache lines (assuming 4 bytes per spinlock, and 64
> bytes cache lines)

Hehe, I actually also pointed this out during my internal review, but
we never gotten around to fixing this.

> So I guess this probably should be increased to have less false sharing.
> 
> Note: This can be done later, I do not want to block this patch serie at
> all !

Yes, lets fix it up later.

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