Re: debugging kernel during packet drops

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 25 mars 2010 à 11:35 +0100, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Here is patch I cooked for xt_hashlimit (on top of net-next-2.6) to make
> > it use RCU and scale better in your case (allowing several concurrent
> > cpus once RPS is activated), but also on more general cases.
> > 
> > [PATCH] xt_hashlimit: RCU conversion
> > 
> > xt_hashlimit uses a central lock per hash table and suffers from
> > contention on some workloads.
> > 
> > After RCU conversion, central lock is only used when a writer wants to
> > add or delete an entry. For 'readers', updating an existing entry, they
> > use an individual lock per entry.
> 
> This clashes with some recent cleanups in nf-next-2.6.git. I'm
> also expecting a patch from Jan to remove the old v0 revision
> very soon (probably today). Please rediff once I've pushed that out.

Sure, this patch was mainly for Jorrit tests (and he uses net-next-2.6),

I will submit several patches for mainline :)

Thanks


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