From 188bab3ae0ed164bc18f98be932512d777dd038b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:25:11 -0700 Subject: [NETFILTER]: Fix invalid module autoloading by splitting iptable_nat When you've enabled conntrack and NAT as a module (standard case in all distributions), and you've also enabled the new conntrack netlink interface, loading ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will auto-load iptable_nat.ko. This causes a huge performance penalty, since for every packet you iterate the nat code, even if you don't want it. This patch splits iptable_nat.ko into the NAT core (ip_nat.ko) and the iptables frontend (iptable_nat.ko). Threfore, ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will only pull ip_nat.ko, but not the frontend. ip_nat.ko will "only" allocate some resources, but not affect runtime performance. This separation is also a nice step in anticipation of new packet filters (nf-hipac, ipset, pkttables) being able to use the NAT core. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile') diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile index 89002533f2a..dab4b58dd31 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ # objects for the standalone - connection tracking / NAT ip_conntrack-objs := ip_conntrack_standalone.o ip_conntrack_core.o ip_conntrack_proto_generic.o ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.o ip_conntrack_proto_udp.o ip_conntrack_proto_icmp.o -iptable_nat-objs := ip_nat_standalone.o ip_nat_rule.o ip_nat_core.o ip_nat_helper.o ip_nat_proto_unknown.o ip_nat_proto_tcp.o ip_nat_proto_udp.o ip_nat_proto_icmp.o +ip_nat-objs := ip_nat_core.o ip_nat_helper.o ip_nat_proto_unknown.o ip_nat_proto_tcp.o ip_nat_proto_udp.o ip_nat_proto_icmp.o +iptable_nat-objs := ip_nat_rule.o ip_nat_standalone.o ip_conntrack_pptp-objs := ip_conntrack_helper_pptp.o ip_conntrack_proto_gre.o ip_nat_pptp-objs := ip_nat_helper_pptp.o ip_nat_proto_gre.o @@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES) += ip_tables.o # the three instances of ip_tables obj-$(CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER) += iptable_filter.o obj-$(CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE) += iptable_mangle.o -obj-$(CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT) += iptable_nat.o +obj-$(CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT) += iptable_nat.o ip_nat.o obj-$(CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW) += iptable_raw.o # matches -- cgit v1.2.3