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Date:	Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:48:35 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: finer grained nf_conn locking

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:55:38 +0100
Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> wrote:

> Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> > Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Yes, we probably can use an array for short lived lock sections.

I am not a fan of the array of locks. Sizing it is awkward and
it is vulnerable to hash collisions. Let's see if there is another
better way.
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