netdev - Re: [RFT 0/4] Netfilter/iptables performance improvements

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:30:08 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT 0/4] Netfilter/iptables performance improvements

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> Bring together the three performance improvements suggested.
>   1) RCU for ip_tables entries
>   2) mod_timer_noact for conntrack timer
>   3) eliminate tcp_lock
> 
> I took the patches for 2 & 3 and made them build and basically work.
> 
> This patch set is against Patrick's netfilter next tree since
> it is where it should end up.
> 	git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git
> 

Excellent Stephen, I'll give some time today to review this and test it
on my lab machines.

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