iptables has two options to modify the behaviour trying to
acquire the lock.
--wait -w [seconds] maximum wait to acquire xtables lock
before give up
--wait-interval -W [usecs] wait time to try to acquire xtables
lock
interval to wait for xtables lock
default is 1 second
Kubernetes uses -w 5 that means that wait 5 seconds to try to
acquire the lock. If we are not able to acquire it, kube-proxy
fails and retries in 30 seconds, that is an important penalty
on sensitive applications.
We can be a bit more aggresive and try to acquire the lock every
100 msec, that means that we have to fail 50 times to not being
able to succeed.
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