Instead of breaking loop and instant resched, don't bother checking this in first place (the loop calls cond_resched for every bucket anyway). Suggested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- As Nicolas suggested, split this part in its own commit. diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index 3a073cd9fcf4..6feb5d370319 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ static __read_mostly bool nf_conntrack_locks_all; #define GC_MAX_BUCKETS_DIV 64u /* upper bound of scan intervals */ #define GC_INTERVAL_MAX (2 * HZ) -/* maximum conntracks to evict per gc run */ -#define GC_MAX_EVICTS 256u static struct conntrack_gc_work conntrack_gc_work; @@ -979,8 +977,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct *work) */ rcu_read_unlock(); cond_resched_rcu_qs(); - } while (++buckets < goal && - expired_count < GC_MAX_EVICTS); + } while (++buckets < goal); if (gc_work->exiting) return; @@ -1005,7 +1002,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct *work) * In case we have lots of evictions next scan is done immediately. */ ratio = scanned ? expired_count * 100 / scanned : 0; - if (ratio >= 90 || expired_count == GC_MAX_EVICTS) { + if (ratio >= 90) { gc_work->next_gc_run = 0; next_run = 0; } else if (expired_count) { -- 2.7.3 -- 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