Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 06:56:32PM -0300, Ricardo Katz wrote: > Hello, > > I've been digging into some performance issue I'm facing in my > production environment and would like to ask if someone has a light > about this. > > My environment has ~50k rules that references some ipsets (it's a > Kubernetes cluster with Calico), and we've seen that sometimes > iptables-nft-save takes more than 20s. So I've tried to search what > was causing that, and have found some interesting behavior: [...] > * nft list table performs WORST than iptables-nft-save, sometimes > taking more than 25s to display the rules. I've made the same test in > a non prod (less load) environment and it takes a little bit less but > yet, it's strange. The measured time is 4s in userspace and the rest > in kernel space, which leads me to ask: is there a way netlink should > be tuned? [...] I have posted a patch to improve listing time: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20200821111438.5362-2-pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks for reporting.