This reduces size of the netns_ct structure, which itself is embedded in struct net. First two patches move two helper related settings to net_generic, these are only accessed when a new connection is added. Patches 3 and 4 move the ct and expect counter to net_generic too. While these are used from packet path, they are not accessed when conntack finds an existing entry. This also makes netns_ct a read-mostly structure, at this time each newly accepted conntrack dirties the first netns_ct cacheline for other cpus. Last patch converts a few sysctls to u8. Most conntrack sysctls are timeouts, so these need to be kept as ints. Florian Westphal (5): netfilter: conntrack: move autoassign warning member to net_generic data netfilter: conntrack: move autoassign_helper sysctl to net_generic data netfilter: conntrack: move expect counter to net_generic data netfilter: conntrack: move ct counter to net_generic data netfilter: conntrack: convert sysctls to u8 include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h | 8 +++ include/net/netns/conntrack.h | 23 ++++----- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 46 ++++++++++++----- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c | 22 ++++++--- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 15 ++++-- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 5 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 34 ++++++------- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c | 66 +++++++++++++------------ 8 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-) -- 2.26.3