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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 30 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst index 024d784157c8..de3815dd4d49 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst @@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ nf_conntrack_acct - BOOLEAN nf_conntrack_buckets - INTEGER Size of hash table. If not specified as parameter during module loading, the default size is calculated by dividing total memory - by 16384 to determine the number of buckets but the hash table will - never have fewer than 32 and limited to 16384 buckets. For systems - with more than 4GB of memory it will be 65536 buckets. + by 16384 to determine the number of buckets. The hash table will + never have fewer than 1024 and never more than 262144 buckets. This sysctl is only writeable in the initial net namespace. nf_conntrack_checksum - BOOLEAN @@ -100,8 +99,12 @@ nf_conntrack_log_invalid - INTEGER Log invalid packets of a type specified by value. nf_conntrack_max - INTEGER - Size of connection tracking table. Default value is - nf_conntrack_buckets value * 4. + Maximum number of allowed connection tracking entries. This value is set + to nf_conntrack_buckets by default. + Note that connection tracking entries are added to the table twice -- once + for the original direction and once for the reply direction (i.e., with + the reversed address). This means that with default settings a maxed-out + table will have a average hash chain length of 2, not 1. nf_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal - BOOLEAN - 0 - disabled (default) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index d31dbccbe7bd..cdd8a1dc2275 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -2594,26 +2594,24 @@ int nf_conntrack_init_start(void) spin_lock_init(&nf_conntrack_locks[i]); if (!nf_conntrack_htable_size) { - /* Idea from tcp.c: use 1/16384 of memory. - * On i386: 32MB machine has 512 buckets. - * >= 1GB machines have 16384 buckets. - * >= 4GB machines have 65536 buckets. - */ nf_conntrack_htable_size = (((nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT) / 16384) / sizeof(struct hlist_head)); - if (nr_pages > (4 * (1024 * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE))) - nf_conntrack_htable_size = 65536; + if (BITS_PER_LONG >= 64 && + nr_pages > (4 * (1024 * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE))) + nf_conntrack_htable_size = 262144; else if (nr_pages > (1024 * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)) - nf_conntrack_htable_size = 16384; - if (nf_conntrack_htable_size < 32) - nf_conntrack_htable_size = 32; - - /* Use a max. factor of four by default to get the same max as - * with the old struct list_heads. When a table size is given - * we use the old value of 8 to avoid reducing the max. - * entries. */ - max_factor = 4; + nf_conntrack_htable_size = 65536; + + if (nf_conntrack_htable_size < 1024) + nf_conntrack_htable_size = 1024; + /* Use a max. factor of one by default to keep the average + * hash chain length at 2 entries. Each entry has to be added + * twice (once for original direction, once for reply). + * When a table size is given we use the old value of 8 to + * avoid implicit reduction of the max entries setting. + */ + max_factor = 1; } nf_conntrack_hash = nf_ct_alloc_hashtable(&nf_conntrack_htable_size, 1); |