netfilter: conntrack: allow increasing bucket size via sysctl too

No need to restrict this to module parameter.

We export a copy of the real hash size -- when user alters the value we
allocate the new table, copy entries etc before we update the real size
to the requested one.

This is also needed because the real size is used by concurrent readers
and cannot be changed without synchronizing the conntrack generation
seqcnt.

We only allow changing this value from the initial net namespace.

Tested using http-client-benchmark vs. httpterm with concurrent

while true;do
 echo $RANDOM > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_buckets
done

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Florian Westphal
2016-06-22 13:26:10 +02:00
committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
parent 8eee54be73
commit 3183ab8997
4 changed files with 62 additions and 19 deletions

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@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ nf_conntrack_acct - BOOLEAN
Enable connection tracking flow accounting. 64-bit byte and packet
counters per flow are added.
nf_conntrack_buckets - INTEGER (read-only)
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.
This sysctl is only writeable in the initial net namespace.
nf_conntrack_checksum - BOOLEAN
0 - disabled