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netfilter: nf_conntrack: Reduce conntrack count in nf_conntrack_free() 

We use RCU to defer freeing of conntrack structures. In DOS situation, RCU might
accumulate about 10.000 elements per CPU in its internal queues. To get accurate
conntrack counts (at the expense of slightly more RAM used), we might consider
conntrack counter not taking into account "about to be freed elements, waiting
in RCU queues". We thus decrement it in nf_conntrack_free(), not in the RCU
callback.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Tested-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2009-03-24 14:26:50 +01:00 committed by Patrick McHardy
parent dd5b6ce6fd
commit 1d45209d89
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -517,16 +517,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_alloc);
static void nf_conntrack_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
{
struct nf_conn *ct = container_of(head, struct nf_conn, rcu);
struct net *net = nf_ct_net(ct);
nf_ct_ext_free(ct);
kmem_cache_free(nf_conntrack_cachep, ct);
atomic_dec(&net->ct.count);
}
void nf_conntrack_free(struct nf_conn *ct)
{
struct net *net = nf_ct_net(ct);
nf_ct_ext_destroy(ct);
atomic_dec(&net->ct.count);
call_rcu(&ct->rcu, nf_conntrack_free_rcu);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_free);