From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [RFC nf-next-2.6] conntrack: per cpu nf_conntrack_untracked Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:36:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1275654964.2482.150.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1271941082.14501.189.camel@jdb-workstation> <4BD04C74.9020402@trash.net> <1271946961.7895.5665.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271948029.7895.5707.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20100422155123.GA2524@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1271952128.7895.5851.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1272056237.4599.7.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1272139861.20714.525.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1272292568.13192.43.camel@jdb-workstation> <1275340896.2478.26.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1275368732.2478.88.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4C04DE73.6050605@trash.net> <1275388310.2738.2.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4C04E3E2.7020209@trash.net> <1275409203.2738.227.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4C08E62A.9020607@trash.net> <4C08F1A4.2050906@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Changli Gao , Netfilter Developers , netdev To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C08F1A4.2050906@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Le vendredi 04 juin 2010 =C3=A0 14:29 +0200, Patrick McHardy a =C3=A9cr= it : > Changli Gao wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Patrick McHardy w= rote: > >> Eric Dumazet wrote: > >>> Obviously, an IPS_UNTRACKED bit would be much easier to implement= =2E > >>> Would it be acceptable ? > >> That also would be fine. However the main idea behind using a nfct= info > >> bit was that we wouldn't need the untracked conntrack anymore at a= ll. > >> But I guess a per-cpu untrack conntrack would already be an improv= ement > >> over the current situation. > >=20 > > I think Eric didn't mean ip_conntrack_info but ip_conntrack_status > > bit. Since we have had a IPS_TEMPLATE bit, I think another > > IPS_UNTRACKED bit is also acceptable. >=20 > Yes, of course. But using one of these bits implies that we'd still > have the untracked conntrack. Yes, it was my idea, with a per_cpu untracked conntrack. I'll submit a patch, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-dev= el" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html