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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: use hlists for conntrack hash
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:27:39 +0200
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Yasuyuki KOZAKAI wrote:
>> Convert conntrack hash to hlists to reduce its size and cache
>> footprint. Since the default hashsize to max. entries ratio
>> sucks (1:16), this patch doesn't reduce the amount of memory
>> used for the hash by default, but instead uses a better ratio
>> of 1:8, which results in the same max. entries value.
>>     
>
> What do you think the impact to nat hash table is ? nf_nat_htable_size
> is set to nf_conntrack_htable_size at initialization.
>
> I think we can also replace list with hlist for nat hash and then
> there is no problem.
>   

Sounds good, I'll look into that today.