conntrackd: rework commit not to fork a child process

This patch reworks the commit phase to avoid the forking. This is
particularly useful in active-active setups in which one node
has to commit the external cache while it is receiving new entries
to be added in the external cache. This results in really high
commit times due to the penalty of the copy-on-write that fork
performs.

The default number of steps in one run loop is limited to 64 by now.
No option to tune this parameter is still available via the
configuration file.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/cache.h b/include/cache.h
index 109e6aa..7e61085 100644
--- a/include/cache.h
+++ b/include/cache.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ void cache_iterate_limit(struct cache *c, void *data, uint32_t from, uint32_t st
 struct nfct_handle;
 
 void cache_dump(struct cache *c, int fd, int type);
-void cache_commit(struct cache *c, struct nfct_handle *h);
+void cache_commit(struct cache *c, struct nfct_handle *h, int clientfd);
 void cache_flush(struct cache *c);
 void cache_bulk(struct cache *c);