Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/3] netfilter: conntrack: prepare for hashtable merge, take 1

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:16:58PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> This small series prepares for upcoming merge of the per-namespace hash tables
> into a single table (or rater, three tables
> -- conntrack hash, expect hash and nat bysrc hash).
> 
> Arguments for merging it:
> - We stop wasting (assuming default size) 250k backing store per namespace
> - net namespace is just another part of the connection id, much like
>   ip addresses or conntrack zones -- no need to treat it specially
> - allows to get rid of the per-netns conntrack slab as well
> 
> These patches are first preparations.
> We replace per-netns conntrack has generation seqcount by single one.
> 
> While at it, this replaces the method used to obtain the hash seed
> by the (nowadays) more common get_random_once().

Series applied, thanks Florian.
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