[ Upstream commit 2aa192757005f130b2dd3547dda6e462e761199f ] The previous commit changed the way the rescheduling delay is computed which has a side effect: the bias is now represented as much as the other entries in the rescheduling delay which makes the logic to kick in only with very large sets, as the initial interval is very large (INT_MAX). Revisit the GC initial bias to allow more frequent GC for smaller sets while still avoiding wakeups when a machine is mostly idle. We're moving from a large initial value to pretending we have 100 entries expiring at the upper bound. This way only a few entries having a small timeout won't impact much the rescheduling delay and non-idle machines will have enough entries to lower the delay when needed. This also improves readability as the initial bias is now linked to what is computed instead of being an arbitrary large value. Fixes: 2cfadb761d3d ("netfilter: conntrack: revisit gc autotuning") Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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