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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 nf-next] netfilter: conntrack: remove the central spinlock
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:20:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369246816.2143.84.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369244868.3301.343.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 10:47 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> nf_conntrack_lock is a monolithic lock and suffers from huge contention
> on current generation servers (8 or more core/threads).
[]
> diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
[]
> @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ struct nf_conn {
>             plus 1 for any connection(s) we are `master' for */
>  	struct nf_conntrack ct_general;
>  
> -	spinlock_t lock;
> +	spinlock_t	lock;
> +	u16		cpu;

trivia:

What's the real value in not using int here?



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-09  3:04 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: conntrack: remove the central spinlock Eric Dumazet
2013-05-09  5:43 ` Cong Wang
2013-05-09  6:01   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-09  7:46     ` Cong Wang
2013-05-09 13:46       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 17:47 ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 18:20   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-05-22 19:26     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 19:57       ` Joe Perches
2013-05-22 20:16         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 20:38           ` Joe Perches
2013-05-22 20:48             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-22 21:12               ` Joe Perches
2013-05-22 21:29                 ` David Miller
2013-05-22 21:34                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-24 13:16   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-05-24 13:51     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-27 12:33       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-05-27 12:36         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-08-23 14:42           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-26 22:28   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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