From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [nf-next PATCH V3 0/5] netfilter: conntrack: optimization, remove central spinlock Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:00:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20140303.160046.1024219314107578405.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140303134319.2615.9293.stgit@dragon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, pablo@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, fw@strlen.de, kaber@trash.net To: brouer@redhat.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140303134319.2615.9293.stgit@dragon> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:44:16 +0100 > This patchset change the conntrack locking and provides a huge > performance improvements. > > This patchset is based upon Eric Dumazet's proposed patch: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/268758/focus=47306 > I have in agreement with Eric Dumazet, taken over this patch (and > turned it into a entire patchset). > > Primary focus is to remove the central spinlock nf_conntrack_lock. > This requires several steps to be acheived. ... For series: Signed-off-by: David S. Miller