Re: [PATCH 0/3] netfilter : 3 patches to boost ip_tables performance

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 11:57:49 EST


On Tuesday 04 October 2005 19:01, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > In a sense it's even getting worse: For example us losing the CONFIG
> > option to disable local conntrack (Patrick has disabled it some time ago
> > without even a comment why he did it) has a really bad impact in some
> > cases.
>
> It was necessary to correctly handle locally generated ICMP errors.

Well you most likely wrecked local performance then when it's enabled.

-Andi

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