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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: [RFT 0/4] Netfilter/iptables performance improvements
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:19:06 -0800
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To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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Bring together the three performance improvements suggested.
  1) RCU for ip_tables entries
  2) mod_timer_noact for conntrack timer
  3) eliminate tcp_lock

I took the patches for 2 & 3 and made them build and basically work.

This patch set is against Patrick's netfilter next tree since
it is where it should end up.
	git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git

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