netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: cache route for forwarded connections

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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:21:14 +0100
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	brouer@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: cache route for forwarded
 connections

Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg> wrote:
> > The cached dst is re-used provided the input interface
> > is the same as that of the previous packet in the same direction.
> > 
> > If not, the cached dst is invalidated.
> > 
> > This should speed up forwarding when conntrack is already in use
> > anyway, especially when using reverse path filtering -- active RPF
> > enforces two FIB lookups for each packet.
> > 
> > Before the routing cache removal this didn't matter since RPF
> > was performed only when route cache didn't yield a result; but without
> > route cache it comes at high price.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> > ---
> >  Sending as RFC since I haven't tested this yet (aside from
> >  single-forwarded-flow), so no performance data either.
> > 
> >   - doesn't work when iif changes (it invalidates cached dst), don't
> >   think its a problem
> 
> 	The idea is good. But code that caches dsts should
> also handle at least NETDEV_UNREGISTER (NETDEV_DOWN being
> another option) to release dsts. Holding dsts for frozen
> conns in EST state for long time is a problem.

Okay, point taken.  Thanks Julian.
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