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Eric Dumazet committed 83723d60717
netfilter: x_tables: dont block BH while reading counters Using "iptables -L" with a lot of rules have a too big BH latency. Jesper mentioned ~6 ms and worried of frame drops. Switch to a per_cpu seqlock scheme, so that taking a snapshot of counters doesnt need to block BH (for this cpu, but also other cpus). This adds two increments on seqlock sequence per ipt_do_table() call, its a reasonable cost for allowing "iptables -L" not block BH processing. Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>