From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:37:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509281037.03185.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050928083240.GP4168@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 10:32, Harald Welte wrote:
> I totally agree, that from a current perspective, I think the concept of
> just loading a module (that has usage count 0) having severe impact on
> system performance is just wrong. But then, users are used to the
> current behaviour for almost five years now.
That doesn't mean it cannot be improved - and I think it should.
In a sense it's even getting worse: For example us losing the CONFIG
option to disable local conntrack (Patrick has disabled it some time ago
without even a comment why he did it) has a really bad impact in some cases.
> Therefore: Let's do this right next time, but live with that fact for
> now.
Even with a "quite straight-forward" (quoting you) fix?
> Just imagine all those poor sysadmins who know nothing about current
> kernel development, and who upgrade their kernel because their
> distributor provides a new one - suddenly their accounting (which might
> be relevant for their business) doesn't work anymore :(
Accounting with per CPU counters can be done fully lockless.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-19 17:09 [PATCH, netfilter] NUMA aware ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c Eric dumazet
2005-09-19 17:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-19 17:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-19 19:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-20 9:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-20 16:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-20 17:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-20 21:45 ` [PATCH] Adds sys_set_mempolicy() in include/linux/syscalls.h , " Eric Dumazet
2005-09-20 21:46 ` [PATCH] Adds sys_set_mempolicy() in include/linux/syscalls.h Eric Dumazet
2005-09-21 21:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance Eric Dumazet
2005-09-21 22:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-22 0:34 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-22 1:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-22 12:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22 12:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-22 12:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 13:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-22 15:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-22 15:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-23 17:11 ` Harald Welte
2005-09-23 17:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-23 18:04 ` Dave Hansen
2005-09-23 17:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23 18:00 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-22 4:18 ` James Morris
2005-09-22 5:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22 13:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-22 13:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23 17:09 ` Harald Welte
2005-09-27 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-28 0:25 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-09-28 8:32 ` Harald Welte
2005-09-28 8:37 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-10-04 17:01 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-10-05 16:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-07 2:38 ` Harald Welte
2005-10-06 17:59 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-07 17:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-10-07 17:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-07 17:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-09-28 10:34 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-11-25 11:23 ` [PATCH] netfilter : zap get_cpu()/put_cpu() calls from ip_tables Eric Dumazet
2005-11-25 11:28 ` [PATCH (resent with the attachment !)] " Eric Dumazet
2005-11-25 18:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-09-21 21:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22 12:57 ` Harald Welte
2005-09-22 13:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-21 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22 12:48 ` Harald Welte
2005-09-22 13:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23 4:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-09-23 5:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-09-23 11:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-09-23 14:00 ` Tim Mattox
2005-09-21 21:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] " Eric Dumazet
2005-09-22 12:50 ` Harald Welte
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