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    "name": "[nf-next,0/6] IPVS changes, part 2 of 4 - optimizations",
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        "From": "Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>",
        "To": "Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>",
        "Cc": "Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,\n        netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>,\n        Jiejian Wu <jiejian@linux.alibaba.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH nf-next 0/6] IPVS changes, part 2 of 4 - optimizations",
        "Date": "Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:12:24 +0200",
        "Message-ID": "<20260214151230.18970-1-ja@ssi.bg>",
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    "content": "Hello,\n\n        This patchset is part 2 of changes that accumulated in\nrecent time. It is for nf-next and should be applied when the patches\nfrom part 1 are already applied. It contains optimizations and\nper-net changes.\n\n        All patches here come from the work\n\"ipvs: per-net tables and optimizations\" last posted\non 19 Oct 2025 as v6, with the following changes:\n\nPatch 1 comes from v6/patch 2 without changes\n\nPatch 2 comes from v6/patch 3 with cosmetic change:\n  - we can not use lockdep_is_held() condition because hlist_bl does\n  not support such debugging yet, readers can be only under RCU lock.\n  That is the reason for the rcu_read_lock() in the updating code\n  in ip_vs_genl_set_cmd().\n\nPatch 3 comes from v6/patch 4 without changes\n\nPatch 4 comes from v6/patch 5 but some of its content was moved\n  also to part1/patch 2\n\nPatch 5 comes from v6/patch 6 without changes\n\nPatch 6 comes from v6/patch 11 with small changes because\n  it was moved forward before other patches from part 3 and 4\n\n\tAs result, the following patches will:\n\n* Convert the global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and\n  switch the service tables to be per-net, cowork by Jiejian Wu and\n  Dust Li\n\n* Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of\n  the service_mutex\n\n* We used two tables for services (non-fwmark and fwmark), merge them\n  into single svc_table\n\n* The list for unavailable destinations (dest_trash) holds dsts and\n  thus dev references causing extra work for the ip_vs_dst_event() dev\n  notifier handler. Change this by dropping the reference when dest\n  is removed and saved into dest_trash. The dest_trash will need more\n  changes to make it light for lookups. TODO.\n\n* On new connection we can do multiple lookups for services by trying\n  different fallback options. Add more counters for service types, so\n  that we can avoid unneeded lookups for services.\n\n* The no_cport and dropentry counters can be per-net and also we can\navoid extra conn lookups\n\n\nJiejian Wu (1):\n  ipvs: make ip_vs_svc_table and ip_vs_svc_fwm_table per netns\n\nJulian Anastasov (5):\n  ipvs: some service readers can use RCU\n  ipvs: use single svc table\n  ipvs: do not keep dest_dst after dest is removed\n  ipvs: use more counters to avoid service lookups\n  ipvs: no_cport and dropentry counters can be per-net\n\n include/net/ip_vs.h             |  39 +++-\n net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c |  64 +++---\n net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c |   2 +-\n net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c  | 368 +++++++++++---------------------\n net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c  |  18 +-\n net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c |  12 +-\n 6 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 291 deletions(-)"
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