From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [RFT 4/4] netfilter: Get rid of central rwlock in tcp conntracking
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:56:45 +0100
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct ip_ct_tcp_state {
>  
>  struct ip_ct_tcp
>  {
> +	spinlock_t	lock;
>  	struct ip_ct_tcp_state seen[2];	/* connection parameters per direction */
>  	u_int8_t	state;		/* state of the connection (enum tcp_conntrack) */
>  	/* For detecting stale connections */

Eric already posted a patch to use an array of locks, which is
a better approach IMO since it keeps the size of the conntrack
entries down.