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| author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2006-03-20 18:03:59 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2006-03-20 18:03:59 -0800 |
| commit | a24276924875802853b5bdc12c56d29f1c1bbc79 (patch) | |
| tree | 5725689bf434004143ae875bbfee3d3d29ddcdb0 /net/netfilter | |
| parent | c4b885139203d37f76662c37ae645fe8e0f4e4e5 (diff) | |
[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: avoid unneccessary event message generation
Avoid unneccessary event message generation by checking for netlink
listeners before building a message.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index aef3cb41131f..5eadf009bb15 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -338,9 +338,10 @@ static int ctnetlink_conntrack_event(struct notifier_block *this, group = NFNLGRP_CONNTRACK_UPDATE; } else return NOTIFY_DONE; - - /* FIXME: Check if there are any listeners before, don't hurt performance */ - + + if (!nfnetlink_has_listeners(group)) + return NOTIFY_DONE; + skb = alloc_skb(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) return NOTIFY_DONE; diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c index f6063e8f0050..b88e82a1a987 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ nfnetlink_check_attributes(struct nfnetlink_subsystem *subsys, return 0; } +int nfnetlink_has_listeners(unsigned int group) +{ + return netlink_has_listeners(nfnl, group); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfnetlink_has_listeners); + int nfnetlink_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, unsigned group, int echo) { gfp_t allocation = in_interrupt() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL; |