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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2008-01-31 04:38:19 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-31 19:27:53 -0800
commit7d0742da1c8f5df3a34030f0170b30d1a052be80 (patch)
treef5717a37a9b4fe27abfa7886996d7051c57b91b9 /net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
parent[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_core: avoid taking nf_conntrack_lock in nf_conntrack_alter_reply (diff)
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[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_expect: use RCU for expectation hash
Use RCU for expectation hash. This doesn't buy much for conntrack runtime performance, but allows to reduce the use of nf_conntrack_lock for /proc and nf_netlink_conntrack. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index b6c0935e09df..557f47137da0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ ctnetlink_exp_dump_table(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct hlist_node *n;
u_int8_t l3proto = nfmsg->nfgen_family;
- read_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
last = (struct nf_conntrack_expect *)cb->args[1];
for (; cb->args[0] < nf_ct_expect_hsize; cb->args[0]++) {
restart:
@@ -1488,7 +1488,8 @@ restart:
cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq,
IPCTNL_MSG_EXP_NEW,
1, exp) < 0) {
- atomic_inc(&exp->use);
+ if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&exp->use))
+ continue;
cb->args[1] = (unsigned long)exp;
goto out;
}
@@ -1499,7 +1500,7 @@ restart:
}
}
out:
- read_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (last)
nf_ct_expect_put(last);