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Re: [NETFILTER] early_drop() imrovement (v4) [message #14410 is a reply to message #14409] Wed, 27 June 2007 13:54 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Patrick McHardy is currently offline  Patrick McHardy
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> Ideally we should do something like this I think (please let it be
> correct :)):
>
> [...]
> So we always walk chains up to the end and NF_CT_EVICTION_RANGE is
> just a minimum. This ensures we will always get the last entry *and*
> we won't scan less entries than currently if someone has a chain
> longer than 8 entries.
>
> What do you think?


I've added this patch now.


[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: early_drop improvement

When the maximum number of conntrack entries is reached and a new
one needs to be allocated, conntrack tries to drop an unassured
connection from the same hash bucket the new conntrack would hash
to. Since with a properly sized hash the average number of entries
per bucket is 1, the chances of actually finding one are not very
good. This patch makes it walk the hash until a minimum number of
8 entries are checked.

Based on patch by Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

---
commit 31889ee2d8f42f84daec97c3b98c47165e358da8
tree 4a1fe840d3056c2e64ab027cc10f92f3843cd710
parent ca0ac66daa3b264702d72282e388f8ba920f9a91
author Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:54:22 +0200
committer Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:54:22 +0200

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index ed44a09..ef3f747 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -377,21 +377,30 @@ nf_conntrack_tuple_taken(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_tuple_taken);

+#define NF_CT_EVICTION_RANGE 8
+
/* There's a small race here where we may free a just-assured
connection. Too bad: we're in trouble anyway. */
-static int early_drop(struct hlist_head *chain)
+static int early_drop(unsigned int hash)
{
/* Use oldest entry, which is roughly LRU */
struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash *h;
struct nf_conn *ct = NULL, *tmp;
struct hlist_node *n;
- int dropped = 0;
+ unsigned int i;
+ int dropped = 0, cnt = 0;

read_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
- hlist_for_each_entry(h, n, chain, hnode) {
- tmp = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(h);
- if (!test_bit(IPS_ASSURED_BIT, &tmp->status))
- ct = tmp;
+ for (i = 0; i < nf_conntrack_htable_size; i++) {
+ hlist_for_each_entry(h, n, &nf_conntrack_hash[hash], hnode) {
+ tmp = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(h);
+ if (!test_bit(IPS_ASSURED_BIT, &tmp->status))
+ ct = tmp;
+ cnt++;
+ }
+ if (ct || cnt >= NF_CT_EVICTION_RANGE)
+ break;
+ hash = (hash + 1) % nf_conntrack_htable_size;
}
if (ct)
atomic_inc(&ct->ct_general.use);
@@ -425,8 +434,7 @@ struct nf_conn *nf_conntrack_alloc(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *orig,
if (nf_conntrack_max
&& atomic_read(&nf_conntrack_count) > nf_conntrack_max) {
unsigned int hash = hash_conntrack(orig);
- /* Try dropping from this hash chain. */
- if (!early_drop(&nf_conntrack_hash[hash])) {
+ if (!early_drop(hash)) {
atomic_dec(&nf_conntrack_count);
if (net_ratelimit())
printk(KERN_WARNING
 
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