netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] netfilter: save the hash of the tuple in the original direction for latter use

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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:32:18 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] netfilter: save the hash of the tuple in the original
 direction for latter use

Am 21.09.2010 02:02, schrieb Changli Gao:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
>>
>> Sure we can, dropping unconfirmed conntracks is a rare exception,
>> not a common case. Even under DoS we usually drop *unassured*
>> conntracks, which have already enterered the hash. If we're unable
>> to do that, we won't even allocate a new conntrack.
>>
> 
> Even so, saving the hash of the reply tuple isn't a good idea.
> 
> If NAT is turned on, the current code is:
> 
> mangle the reply tuple -> compute the hash of the reply tuple ->
> insert into the conntrack hash table.
> 
> the new code is
> 
> compute the hash of the reply tuple -> mangle the reply tuple ->
> recompute the hash of the reply tuple -> insert into the conntrack
> hash table.
> 
> As you see, the hash computing is done twice, and we use more CPU
> cycles than before.

You're right of course, we actually don't compute the reply hash
before inserting the conntrack into the hash table (except in a
few NAT cases, but we can look at those later).
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