Re: ip_conntrack_hash() problem

[Patrick Schaaf]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:54:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I'll feed this through 2.5, once it's had some more testing (hint
> > hint!).  Then Harald will make a call on 2.4.
> 
> I would propose to include Martin's simple patch as a short term fix 
> for 2.4 until Rusty's full work can get in. It fixes an bad performance
> problems in some not too uncommon cases.

As a short time fix, seeing that it's mostly even hash bucket counts
that give a problem, I would still propose just making the bucket count
the nearest odd number, i.e. basically htable_size |= 1 in the startup code.

I don't expect any user to notice such a miniscule change.

best regards
  Patrick