From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/27] xt_helper match, revision 1
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <477E4ADE.5030308@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801022129130.14900@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> commit c3c5674fee490f6735136b2c9a7e39a30f25635e
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
> Date: Wed Jan 2 18:01:06 2008 +0100
>
> [NETFILTER]: xt_helper match, revision 1
>
> Introduces the xt_helper match revision 1. It uses fixed types, and
> its structure size has been adjusted.
>
> The xt_helper revision 0 structure had an odd size of 34 bytes. I
> changed this into 32 bytes, which probably plays much better with
> cachelines. The invert flag is also shrunk so now there is an
> additional byte available for the name as a side effect.
Is there any real advantage in doing this? There aren't any
compatibility issues, so it seems a bit pointless to add a
new revision for this minor layout change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-04 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-02 20:18 [PATCH 0/27] Netfilter update Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:24 ` [PATCH 1/27] remove ipt_TOS.c Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/27] Change semantic of mask value in xt_TOS Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:26 ` [PATCH 3/27] Properly set the TOS field " Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:26 ` [PATCH 4/27] Annotate start of kernel fields in NF headers Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:26 ` [PATCH 5/27] Remove CONFIG_COMPAT code in xt_hashlimit, xt_limit Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-10 23:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-11 9:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:27 ` [PATCH 6/27] xt_CONNMARK target, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 14:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:27 ` [PATCH 7/27] xt_MARK target, revision 2 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:27 ` [PATCH 8/27] xt_connmark match, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 14:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:28 ` [PATCH 9/27] Extend nf_inet_addr with in{,6}_addr Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:28 ` [PATCH 10/27] xt_conntrack match, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-15 6:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-15 12:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-15 14:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-16 18:02 ` [NETFILTER]: xt_conntrack: add port and direction matching Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-17 13:52 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-01-17 15:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-20 13:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-20 13:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-20 13:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-20 16:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-20 16:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-21 1:14 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-01-21 1:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-21 1:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-01-21 1:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-21 1:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:28 ` [PATCH 11/27] xt_hashlimit: use the new union nf_inet_addr Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-15 5:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:28 ` [PATCH 12/27] xt_hashlimit match, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 14:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:29 ` [PATCH 13/27] xt_helper: Do not bypass RCU Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:01 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:29 ` [PATCH 14/27] xt_helper match, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:03 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-01-02 20:29 ` [PATCH 15/27] xt_length " Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-04 15:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:30 ` [PATCH 16/27] xt_mark " Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:30 ` [PATCH 17/27] xt_pkttype: Add explicit check for IPv4 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:30 ` [PATCH 18/27] xt_pkttype IPv6 multicast address recognition Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 15:26 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:30 ` [PATCH 19/27] xt_policy: use the new unoin nf_inet_addr Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 15:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:30 ` [PATCH 20/27] Update modules' descriptions Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 15:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 16:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:31 ` [PATCH 21/27] Convert unfixated types to fixated ones Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:31 ` [PATCH 22/27] Rename ipt_iprange to xt_iprange Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 16:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-09 13:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-10 15:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:31 ` [PATCH 23/27] xt_iprange match, revision 1 Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 16:26 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:33 ` [PATCH 24/27] Merge ipt_REJECT and ip6t_REJECT into xt_REJECT Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 15:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 25/27] Merge ipt_ah and ip6t_ah into xt_ah Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 16:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 26/27] Unknot xt_ah IPv6 logic Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 27/27] Update feature-removal-schedule.txt Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 16:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-08 16:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-08 16:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-15 16:16 ` Patrick McHardy
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