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Florian Westphal
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This reverts commit 870190a9ec.
It was not a good idea. The custom hash table was a much better
fit for this purpose.
A fast lookup is not essential, in fact for most cases there is no lookup
at all because original tuple is not taken and can be used as-is.
What needs to be fast is insertion and deletion.
rhlist removal however requires a rhlist walk.
We can have thousands of entries in such a list if source port/addresses
are reused for multiple flows, if this happens removal requests are so
expensive that deletions of a few thousand flows can take several
seconds(!).
The advantages that we got from rhashtable are:
1) table auto-sizing
2) multiple locks
1) would be nice to have, but it is not essential as we have at
most one lookup per new flow, so even a million flows in the bysource
table are not a problem compared to current deletion cost.
2) is easy to add to custom hash table.
I tried to add hlist_node to rhlist to speed up rhltable_remove but this
isn't doable without changing semantics. rhltable_remove_fast will
check that the to-be-deleted object is part of the table and that
requires a list walk that we want to avoid.
Furthermore, using hlist_node increases size of struct rhlist_head, which
in turn increases nf_conn size.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196821
Reported-by: Ivan Babrou <ibobrik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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