netdev - Re: bad nat connection tracking performance with ip

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Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:38:39 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
CC:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad nat connection tracking performance with ip_gre

Timo Teräs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed (in relation to my nbma gre multicast testing) that
> the nat connection tracking code does not cache flows for
> locally originating traffic that is routed to gre tunnel
> (forwarded traffic is ok).
> 
> I basically have a router box with nbma gre tunnel. It gets
> 10/8 traffic. And is routed to internet interface. An ipsec
> xfrm is applied.
> 
> Now, if the router box is forwarding traffic from some
> physical interface, everything works as expected.
> 
> However, if a local process on the router box is sending
> packets that go to gre tunnel, each packet causes a new
> lookup on nat table OUTPUT chain. This is easily verified
> by doing flood ping on router box on private IP and the
> counters on nat table OUTPUT chain default policy start
> to get incremented wildly.
> 
> I tried to oprofile this and it says most of the time is
> spent in ipt_do_table(). I would suppose that the place
> where netfilter hook is called is
> ip_gre.c:ipgre_tunnel_xmit() when it invokes macro
> IPTUNNEL_XMIT() calling ip_local_out().
> 
> Monitoring the connection tracking stats, it looks like
> all packets are reusing the proper connection tracking
> cache entry. But somehow the nat target still gets
> called for the locally originating packets to gre.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?

Please use the TRACE target in raw/OUTPUT to trace the flow of
packets through the netfilter hooks:

modprobe ipt_LOG
iptables -t raw -A OUTPUT -j TRACE
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