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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: TODO list before feature freeze
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:31:16 +0200
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> Regarding the hashing schemes, please see discussions on netfilter-devel
> over the last weeks:
> 
> http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2002-July/thread.html
> 
> and a small presentation of various bucket sizes / hash functions
> for some real world scenarios: http://bei.bof.de/ex6/
> This presentation, a bit terse on comments, links to a tarball
> which allows you to recreate the same presentation for any
> dump of /proc/net/ip_conntrack, varying bucket counts and
> hash functions.

Have you done any profiling of real workloads to see where the actual 
overhead comes from?

-Andi