From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Once we place all conntracks into same table iteration becomes more costly because the table contains conntracks that we are not interested in (belonging to other netns). So don't bother scanning if the current namespace has no entries. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index 29fa08b..f2e75a5 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -1428,6 +1428,9 @@ void nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(struct net *net, might_sleep(); + if (atomic_read(&net->ct.count) == 0) + return; + while ((ct = get_next_corpse(net, iter, data, &bucket)) != NULL) { /* Time to push up daises... */ if (del_timer(&ct->timeout)) -- 2.1.4 -- 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