Re: [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: conntrack: optional reliable conntrack event delivery

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>>> This is a first attempt to replace some global locks by private
>>> per conntrack locks. On 64 bit, it fits into a hole and doesn't
>>> enlarge struct nf_conn.
>> [...]
>>> Now is that really better - I'm not sure myself :) The per-conntrack
>>> locking would be an improvement though. What do you think?
>>
>> I think it's cool and highly required, in order to add per hash bucket 
>> locks too :-). And hash bucket locking can even more improve 
>> performance. (We need the ordered locking of the buckets for both 
>> directions only when entries are added/deleted, otherwise a single 
>> read-lock of the given bucket is enough.)
> 
> Great, I'll go over it once more and will commit it to my tree.
> 
> I'll post a quick note once its committed so Pablo can rebase
> his patches.

I've committed the patch and pushed it out.