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authorMartin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>2006-11-29 02:35:12 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-02 21:31:14 -0800
commitbe00c8e48993368663e2714bd1e7c886b7736406 (patch)
treee846325f0ae13b20b78fa711759b09600c8646df /net
parent824621eddd2087b0e6f0b2e0da91e8d77e4919bf (diff)
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: reduce timer updates in __nf_ct_refresh_acct()
Only update the conntrack timer if there's been at least HZ jiffies since the last update. Reduces the number of del_timer/add_timer cycles from one per packet to one per connection per second (plus once for each state change of a connection) Should handle timer wraparounds and connection timeout changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 355b330c214..3e7c0a90003 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -864,9 +864,14 @@ void __nf_ct_refresh_acct(struct nf_conn *ct,
ct->timeout.expires = extra_jiffies;
event = IPCT_REFRESH;
} else {
- /* Need del_timer for race avoidance (may already be dying). */
- if (del_timer(&ct->timeout)) {
- ct->timeout.expires = jiffies + extra_jiffies;
+ unsigned long newtime = jiffies + extra_jiffies;
+
+ /* Only update the timeout if the new timeout is at least
+ HZ jiffies from the old timeout. Need del_timer for race
+ avoidance (may already be dying). */
+ if (newtime - ct->timeout.expires >= HZ
+ && del_timer(&ct->timeout)) {
+ ct->timeout.expires = newtime;
add_timer(&ct->timeout);
event = IPCT_REFRESH;
}