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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-06-08 16:09:52 +0200
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2010-06-08 16:09:52 +0200
commit5bfddbd46a95c978f4d3c992339cbdf4f4b790a3 (patch)
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netfilter: nf_conntrack: IPS_UNTRACKED bit
NOTRACK makes all cpus share a cache line on nf_conntrack_untracked twice per packet. This is bad for performance. __read_mostly annotation is also a bad choice. This patch introduces IPS_UNTRACKED bit so that we can use later a per_cpu untrack structure more easily. A new helper, nf_ct_untracked_get() returns a pointer to nf_conntrack_untracked. Another one, nf_ct_untracked_status_or() is used by nf_nat_init() to add IPS_NAT_DONE_MASK bits to untracked status. nf_ct_is_untracked() prototype is changed to work on a nf_conn pointer. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index c42ff6a..5bae1cd 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ ctnetlink_conntrack_event(unsigned int events, struct nf_ct_event *item)
int err;
/* ignore our fake conntrack entry */
- if (ct == &nf_conntrack_untracked)
+ if (nf_ct_is_untracked(ct))
return 0;
if (events & (1 << IPCT_DESTROY)) {