linux-kernel - Re: Regression caused by commit "netfilter: iptables: lock free counters"

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0904051328030.7501@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:36:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, graham@...rray.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression caused by commit "netfilter: iptables: lock free
 counters"


On Sunday 2009-04-05 12:01, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>This could probably be solved using a single "table" containing
>rules only, that could be shared for every cpus. Only counters
>should be percpu. This should save a lot of ram, over previous
>situation (2.6.29 or current one)

Why would counters stay separate?

I recognize all of this table copying is related to do NUMA
optimizations, and I think I heard cache bouncing too somewhere else.

[ http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=119903624211253&w=2 ]
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