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netfilter: nf_conncount: increase the connection clean up limit to 64
authorFernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:46:41 +0000 (15:46 +0100)
committerFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:23:37 +0000 (16:23 +0100)
commit21d033e472735ecec677f1ae46d6740b5e47a4f3
tree2a7188f93f76e391991a88c50bc29abb788ecd60
parent8a49fc8d8a3e83dc51ec05bcd4007bdea3c56eec
netfilter: nf_conncount: increase the connection clean up limit to 64

After the optimization to only perform one GC per jiffy, a new problem
was introduced. If more than 8 new connections are tracked per jiffy the
list won't be cleaned up fast enough possibly reaching the limit
wrongly.

In order to prevent this issue, only skip the GC if it was already
triggered during the same jiffy and the increment is lower than the
clean up limit. In addition, increase the clean up limit to 64
connections to avoid triggering GC too often and do more effective GCs.

This has been tested using a HTTP server and several
performance tools while having nft_connlimit/xt_connlimit or OVS limit
configured.

Output of slowhttptest + OVS limit at 52000 connections:

 slow HTTP test status on 340th second:
 initializing:        0
 pending:             432
 connected:           51998
 error:               0
 closed:              0
 service available:   YES

Fixes: d265929930e2 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: reduce unnecessary GC")
Reported-by: Aleksandra Rukomoinikova <ARukomoinikova@k2.cloud>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter/b2064e7b-0776-4e14-adb6-c68080987471@k2.cloud/
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count.h
net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c