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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt index 70da5086153d..f55599c62c9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ nf_conntrack_buckets - INTEGER (read-only) 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 or more than 16384 buckets. + never have fewer than 32 and limited to 16384 buckets. For systems + with more than 4GB of memory it will be 65536 buckets. nf_conntrack_checksum - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index a11674806707..da58cd4f2cb7 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -1624,13 +1624,18 @@ int nf_conntrack_init_start(void) for (i = 0; i < CONNTRACK_LOCKS; i++) spin_lock_init(&nf_conntrack_locks[i]); - /* Idea from tcp.c: use 1/16384 of memory. On i386: 32MB - * machine has 512 buckets. >= 1GB machines have 16384 buckets. */ 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 = (((totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT) / 16384) / sizeof(struct hlist_head)); - if (totalram_pages > (1024 * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)) + if (totalram_pages > (4 * (1024 * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE))) + nf_conntrack_htable_size = 65536; + else if (totalram_pages > (1024 * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)) nf_conntrack_htable_size = 16384; if (nf_conntrack_htable_size < 32) nf_conntrack_htable_size = 32; |