Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] netfilter: conntrack: use siphash_4u64

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:02:38 -0800

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:41:06 +0100 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
> 
> This function is used for every packet, siphash_4u64 is noticeably faster
> than using local buffer + siphash:
> 
> Before:
>   1.23%  kpktgend_0       [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] __siphash_unaligned
>   0.14%  kpktgend_0       [nf_conntrack]       [k] hash_conntrack_raw
> After:
>   0.79%  kpktgend_0       [kernel.vmlinux]     [k] siphash_4u64
>   0.15%  kpktgend_0       [nf_conntrack]       [k] hash_conntrack_raw
> 
> In the pktgen test this gives about ~2.4% performance improvement.

Hi, Mr Nit Pick here, can we silence the spatse warnings?

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:222:14: warning: cast from restricted __be16
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:222:55: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer