ipvs: Move defense_work and est_reload_work to system_dfl_long_wq

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Under synflood conditions binding these handlers to system_long_wq may
pin them to a saturated CPU.

We've observed improved throughtput on a DPDK/VPP application with this
change, which we attribute to the reduced context switching.

Neither handler has per-CPU data dependencies nor cache locality
requirements that would prevent this change.

Signed-off-by: Ismael Luceno <iluceno@suse.de>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

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Ismael Luceno 2026-07-02 12:10:50 +02:00 • committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso

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net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c

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net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c

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