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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 1/3] netfilter: reduce hook array sizes to what is needed
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 14:14:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171207131430.GA24920@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171207130620.7585-2-fw@strlen.de>

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 02:06:18PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Not all families share the same hook count.
> 
> Can't use the corresponding ARP, BRIDGE, DECNET defines because they are
> defined in uapi headers and including them causes build failures.
> 
> struct net before:
> /* size: 6592, cachelines: 103, members: 46 */
> after:
> /* size: 5952, cachelines: 93, members: 46 */
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> ---
>  include/net/netns/netfilter.h | 13 ++++++++-----
>  net/netfilter/core.c          | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/netns/netfilter.h b/include/net/netns/netfilter.h
> index b39c563c2fce..46842a1f77fb 100644
> --- a/include/net/netns/netfilter.h
> +++ b/include/net/netns/netfilter.h
> @@ -17,11 +17,14 @@ struct netns_nf {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
>  	struct ctl_table_header *nf_log_dir_header;
>  #endif
> -	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_ipv4[NF_MAX_HOOKS];
> -	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_ipv6[NF_MAX_HOOKS];
> -	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_arp[NF_MAX_HOOKS];
> -	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_bridge[NF_MAX_HOOKS];
> -	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_decnet[NF_MAX_HOOKS];
> +	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_ipv4[NF_INET_NUMHOOKS];
> +	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_ipv6[NF_INET_NUMHOOKS];
> +	/* in/out/forward only */
> +	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_arp[3];
> +	/* note: 'BROUTE' isn't a real hook (called via function pointer) */
> +	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_bridge[NF_INET_NUMHOOKS];
> +	/* also supports a 'HELLO' and 'ROUTE' type */
> +	struct nf_hook_entries __rcu *hooks_decnet[NF_INET_NUMHOOKS + 2];

Just a suggestion, for a follow up patch: Get rid of magic numbers and
add some NF_ARP_NUMHOOKS and NF_DECNET_NUMHOOKS too, so similar
definition.

Make sense to you?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-07 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-07 13:06 [PATCH nf-next 0/3] netfilter: reduce hook array sizes to what is needed Florian Westphal
2017-12-07 13:06 ` [PATCH nf-next 1/3] " Florian Westphal
2017-12-07 13:14   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-12-07 13:24     ` Florian Westphal
2017-12-07 13:06 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/3] netfilter: don't allocate space for decnet hooks unless needed Florian Westphal
2017-12-07 13:06 ` [PATCH nf-next 3/3] netfilter: don't allocate space for arp/bridge " Florian Westphal

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