From: Fabian Hugelshofer <hugelshofer2006@gmx.ch>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:41:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484430D8.10106@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48442cd8.dD0hLVFRFjNruv6o%ole@ans.pl>
Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> [NETFILTER] Accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters
>
> Initially netfilter has had 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, but
> it was changed in 2.6.14 to save memory. Unfortunately in-kernel 64bit counters are
> still required, for example for "connbytes" extension. However, 64bit counters
> waste a lot of memory and it was not possible to enable/disable it runtime.
[...]
> Patch against 2.6.26-rc4, it would be nice if it can be included
> in 2.6.27.
Just to notice: recently nf_ct_kill_acct() has been introduced which
accounts packets on abnormal connection termination. This function has
to be changed as well.
See:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8d38001bd4a51fd5571ca84a40a7cddeca1e472d
and
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0943b274f3fa89f7dd5d8d435d81e2e929e13c3a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-02 17:24 [PATCH] Accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-02 17:41 ` Fabian Hugelshofer [this message]
2008-06-02 18:05 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 13:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 16:23 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 16:28 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 16:35 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 16:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 16:49 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 17:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 17:19 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 17:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 17:35 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-06-03 17:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-03 18:10 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
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