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netfilter: reduce netns create/delete cost

Florian Westphal netfilter-devel 1 version In review

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1/3netfilter: core: make nf_unregister_net_hooks simple wrapper againnet/netfilter/core.c+3 -560 replies
2/3netfilter: core: remove synchronize_net call if nfqueue is usedinclude/net/netfilter/nf_queue.h net/netfilter/core.c net/netfilter/nf_internals.h +2 more+7 -190 replies
3/3netfilter: core: free hooks with call_rcuinclude/linux/netfilter.h net/netfilter/core.c+43 -100 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH nf-next 0/3] netfilter: reduce netns create/delete cost

This patch series removes all synchronize_net() calls from netfilter core to speed up net namespace create/delete rate.

Freeing of hooks is moved to call_rcu at the cost of additional 24 bytes at the end of each rule blob.

 include/linux/netfilter.h        |   19 +++++--
 include/net/netfilter/nf_queue.h |    2 
 net/netfilter/core.c             |   99 ++++++++++++---------------------------
 net/netfilter/nf_internals.h     |    2 
 net/netfilter/nf_queue.c         |    7 --
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c  |    9 ---
 6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)