[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] Conntrack: add commands to r/w CT parameters.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Nov 3 21:48:44 UTC 2017


On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 09:25:12AM +0100, antonio.fischetti at intel.com wrote:
> This change comes from the consideration that when the CT is enabled 
> the overall performance can be deeply affected, even with simple
> firewall rules and with stateless protocols like UDP.
> This implementation adds a basic infrastructure that allows the user
> to adjust the CT configuration parameters at run-time in order to
> find a better tuning.
> For example - depending on the traffic profile - the user could decrease 
> at run-time the maximum number of tracked connections, so to mitigate 
> the impact on performance.
> 
> V3: Added changes to documentation.
> 
> V2: Reworked based on comments.
>     Patch #1 comes after a discussion with Darrell.
> 
> V1: First implementation.

Hi Darrell.  The userspace connection tracker is mostly your code.  Do
you want to review this series?  Otherwise, let me know, and I'll do my
best.


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