Re: Confirming conntrack behavior on environments with multiple network namespaces

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Antonio Ojea <antonio.ojea.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or add 'notrack' rules in init_net for the netns originating traffic.
> > Or create a netns, enable conntrack and then only create connections
> > to addresses reachable via loopback. In all these cases init_net won't
> > be affected by the net namespace.
> 
> It will be hard to disable conntrack in init_net, a lot of
> functionality relies on NAT in kubernetes and is not owned by the same
> component

Sure, I understand that no-conntrack-in-init-but-in-another-namespace
is atypical.

> > That will only monitor that namespace, I'm not aware of a global counter.
> >
> 
> Can this be a feature request? having a global counter can easily
> monitor the load factor of the system, but I'm not familiar with
> kernel conventions and having some global counter may be discouraged

Not sure we should add one, it will result in some overhead for no good
reason.  Maybe /proc/slabinfo is enough for your use case?

nf_conntrack has its own (global) memory pool, it should provide a
reasonably good estimate across all netns.