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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2010-05-31 18:41:35 +0400 |
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| committer | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2010-05-31 18:41:35 +0400 |
| commit | 7489aec8eed4f2f1eb3b4d35763bd3ea30b32ef5 (patch) | |
| tree | fe2450679dc217183421e606b3912641545596bd /net/netfilter | |
| parent | c936e8bd1de2fa50c49e3df6fa5036bf07870b67 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7489aec8eed4f2f1eb3b4d35763bd3ea30b32ef5.tar.xz | |
netfilter: xtables: stackptr should be percpu
commit f3c5c1bfd4 (netfilter: xtables: make ip_tables reentrant)
introduced a performance regression, because stackptr array is shared by
all cpus, adding cache line ping pongs. (16 cpus share a 64 bytes cache
line)
Fix this using alloc_percpu()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-By: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index 47b1e7917a9c..e34622fa0003 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -699,10 +699,8 @@ void xt_free_table_info(struct xt_table_info *info) vfree(info->jumpstack); else kfree(info->jumpstack); - if (sizeof(unsigned int) * nr_cpu_ids > PAGE_SIZE) - vfree(info->stackptr); - else - kfree(info->stackptr); + + free_percpu(info->stackptr); kfree(info); } @@ -753,14 +751,9 @@ static int xt_jumpstack_alloc(struct xt_table_info *i) unsigned int size; int cpu; - size = sizeof(unsigned int) * nr_cpu_ids; - if (size > PAGE_SIZE) - i->stackptr = vmalloc(size); - else - i->stackptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + i->stackptr = alloc_percpu(unsigned int); if (i->stackptr == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - memset(i->stackptr, 0, size); size = sizeof(void **) * nr_cpu_ids; if (size > PAGE_SIZE) |