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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi Subject: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: flowtable: dedicated slab for flow entry Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:12:12 +0800 Message-ID: <20260129101213.74557-1-dqfext@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The size of `struct flow_offload` has grown beyond 256 bytes on 64-bit kernels (currently 280 bytes) because of the `flow_offload_tunnel` member added recently. So kmalloc() allocates from the kmalloc-512 slab, causing significant memory waste per entry. Introduce a dedicated slab cache for flow entries to reduce memory footprint. Results in a reduction from 512 bytes to 320 bytes per entry on x86_64 kernels. Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng --- net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c index 06e8251a6644..e075dbf5b0ce 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(flowtable_lock); static LIST_HEAD(flowtables); +static __read_mostly struct kmem_cache *flow_offload_cachep; static void flow_offload_fill_dir(struct flow_offload *flow, @@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ struct flow_offload *flow_offload_alloc(struct nf_conn *ct) if (unlikely(nf_ct_is_dying(ct))) return NULL; - flow = kzalloc(sizeof(*flow), GFP_ATOMIC); + flow = kmem_cache_zalloc(flow_offload_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!flow) return NULL; @@ -812,9 +813,15 @@ static int __init nf_flow_table_module_init(void) { int ret; + flow_offload_cachep = kmem_cache_create("nf_flow_offload", + sizeof(struct flow_offload), + NULL, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN); + if (!flow_offload_cachep) + return -ENOMEM; + ret = register_pernet_subsys(&nf_flow_table_net_ops); if (ret < 0) - return ret; + goto out_pernet; ret = nf_flow_table_offload_init(); if (ret) @@ -830,6 +837,8 @@ static int __init nf_flow_table_module_init(void) nf_flow_table_offload_exit(); out_offload: unregister_pernet_subsys(&nf_flow_table_net_ops); +out_pernet: + kmem_cache_destroy(flow_offload_cachep); return ret; } @@ -837,6 +846,7 @@ static void __exit nf_flow_table_module_exit(void) { nf_flow_table_offload_exit(); unregister_pernet_subsys(&nf_flow_table_net_ops); + kmem_cache_destroy(flow_offload_cachep); } module_init(nf_flow_table_module_init); -- 2.43.0