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Commit 7d084877 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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netfilter: connlimit: use rbtree for per-host conntrack obj storage



With current match design every invocation of the connlimit_match
function means we have to perform (number_of_conntracks % 256) lookups
in the conntrack table [ to perform GC/delete stale entries ].
This is also the reason why ____nf_conntrack_find() in perf top has
> 20% cpu time per core.

This patch changes the storage to rbtree which cuts down the number of
ct objects that need testing.

When looking up a new tuple, we only test the connections of the host
objects we visit while searching for the wanted host/network (or
the leaf we need to insert at).

The slot count is reduced to 32.  Increasing slot count doesn't
speed up things much because of rbtree nature.

before patch (50kpps rx, 10kpps tx):
+  20.95%  ksoftirqd/0  [nf_conntrack] [k] ____nf_conntrack_find
+  20.50%  ksoftirqd/1  [nf_conntrack] [k] ____nf_conntrack_find
+  20.27%  ksoftirqd/2  [nf_conntrack] [k] ____nf_conntrack_find
+   5.76%  ksoftirqd/1  [nf_conntrack] [k] hash_conntrack_raw
+   5.39%  ksoftirqd/2  [nf_conntrack] [k] hash_conntrack_raw
+   5.35%  ksoftirqd/0  [nf_conntrack] [k] hash_conntrack_raw

after (90kpps, 51kpps tx):
+  17.24%       swapper  [nf_conntrack]    [k] ____nf_conntrack_find
+   6.60%   ksoftirqd/2  [nf_conntrack]    [k] ____nf_conntrack_find
+   2.73%       swapper  [nf_conntrack]    [k] hash_conntrack_raw
+   2.36%       swapper  [xt_connlimit]    [k] count_tree

Obvious disadvantages to previous version are the increase in code
complexity and the increased memory cost.

Partially based on Eric Dumazets fq scheduler.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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