From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Westphal Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: use safer way to lock all buckets Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 02:06:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20160110010637.GA22861@breakpoint.cc> References: <1451960746-28915-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, kaber@trash.net, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, davem@davemloft.net, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Sasha Levin Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1451960746-28915-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Sasha Levin wrote: > When we need to lock all buckets in the connection hashtable we'd attempt to > lock 1024 spinlocks, which is way more preemption levels than supported by > the kernel. You're right. > Fix this by using a global lock and synchronize all buckets on it when we > need to lock them all. This is pretty heavyweight, but is only done when we > need to resize the hashtable, and that doesn't happen often enough (or at all). > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c > index 3cb3cb8..3c008ce 100644 > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c > @@ -66,6 +66,32 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_locks); > __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nf_conntrack_expect_lock); > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_expect_lock); > > +spinlock_t nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock; > +bool nf_conntrack_locks_all; Seems both of these can be static and __read_mostly too -- as you already note resizing virtually never happens. Otherwise: Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal