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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: owner-Match in 2.6.20-rc5 (fwd)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:01:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070125.130111.26966608.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701252121190.26664@blackhole.kfki.hu>

From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:31:56 +0100 (CET)

> The report below was posted on the netfilter user list. Isn't there any 
> ill side effect by reverting the change?

Performance regression :-(

This optimization saves a whole handful of heavy atomic operations in
the packet transmit path of TCP.

As I understand it, the owner-Match is not in the upstream tree, and
it's the only thing that cares, so I see no reason to cater for it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25 20:31 owner-Match in 2.6.20-rc5 (fwd) Jozsef Kadlecsik
2007-01-25 20:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-25 21:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-01-25 21:07   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-25 22:01     ` David Miller
2007-01-25 22:14       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-26  9:05         ` David Miller

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