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Michal Kubecek reports that conntrack gc is responsible for frequent wakeups (every 125ms) on idle systems. On busy systems, timed out entries are evicted during lookup. The gc worker is only needed to remove entries after system becomes idle after a busy period. To resolve this, always scan the entire table. If the scan is taking too long, reschedule so other work_structs can run and resume from next bucket. After a completed scan, wait for 2 minutes before the next cycle. Heuristics for faster re-schedule are removed. GC_SCAN_INTERVAL could be exposed as a sysctl in the future to allow tuning this as-needed or even turn the gc worker off. Reported-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.