From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Netfilter Developers <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: 32 core net-next stack/netfilter "scaling"
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:33:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497F457F.2050802@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497F350A.9020509@cosmosbay.com>
Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [PATCH] netfilter: Get rid of central rwlock in tcp conntracking
>
> TCP connection tracking suffers of huge contention on a global rwlock,
> used to protect tcp conntracking state.
>
> As each tcp conntrack state have no relations between each others, we
> can switch to fine grained lock. Using an array of spinlocks avoids
> enlarging size of connection tracking structures, yet giving reasonable
> fanout.
>
> tcp_print_conntrack() doesnt need to lock anything to read
> ct->proto.tcp.state, so speedup /proc/net/ip_conntrack as well.
>
> nf_conntrack_hash_rnd_initted & nf_conntrack_hash_rnd declared read_mostly
>
This looks good to me. Rick, would you like to give it a try?
I'll convert the remaining conntrack protocols when applying it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 22:15 32 core net-next stack/netfilter "scaling" Rick Jones
2009-01-26 23:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-26 23:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-26 23:19 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 9:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 9:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-27 11:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 11:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-27 16:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 17:33 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-01-27 18:02 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 19:09 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 19:24 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 22:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 22:29 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 22:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 22:43 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-28 13:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-28 16:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-28 17:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-28 17:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-29 15:31 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match() Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 15:47 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-30 16:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 17:27 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-30 17:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 17:50 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-09 13:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-18 15:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-18 15:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-18 16:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-18 16:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-18 17:36 ` [PATCH] netfilter: xt_physdev fixes Eric Dumazet
2009-02-18 18:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-19 8:00 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two loops in physdev_mt() Eric Dumazet
2009-02-19 8:14 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two loops in ip6_packet_match() Eric Dumazet
2009-02-19 10:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-19 10:17 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two loops in physdev_mt() Patrick McHardy
2009-02-20 10:02 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match() Eric Dumazet
2009-02-20 10:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-09 14:57 ` 32 core net-next stack/netfilter "scaling" Patrick McHardy
2009-02-10 18:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
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