Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 0/9] conntrack: improve multithread scalability

2021-04-21 Thread Gaƫtan Rivet
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, at 17:34, Gaetan Rivet wrote: > Conntracks are executed within the datapath. Locks along this path are crucial > and their critical section should be minimal. The global 'ct_lock' is > necessary > before any action taken on connection states. This lock is needed for many >

[ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 0/9] conntrack: improve multithread scalability

2021-02-17 Thread Gaetan Rivet
Conntracks are executed within the datapath. Locks along this path are crucial and their critical section should be minimal. The global 'ct_lock' is necessary before any action taken on connection states. This lock is needed for many operations on the conntrack, slowing down the datapath. The