On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:03:56 -0500 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When we need to lock all buckets in the connection hashtable we'd attempt to > lock 1024 spinlocks, which is way more preemption levels than supported by > the kernel. Furthermore, this behavior was hidden by checking if lockdep is > enabled, and if it was - use only 8 buckets(!). > > Fix this by using a global lock and synchronize all buckets on it when we > need to lock them all. This is pretty heavyweight, but is only done when we > need to resize the hashtable, and that doesn't happen often enough (or at all). > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> [...] > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c > index 3cb3cb8..4ccf5ad 100644 > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c > @@ -66,6 +66,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_locks); > __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nf_conntrack_expect_lock); > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_expect_lock); > > +spinlock_t nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock; > +bool nf_conntrack_locks_all; You forgot to mark these static and __read_mostly as Florian pointed out... After that you can add my: Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer -- 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