Re: [NETFILTER]: Move extensions' arguments into compound structure (1/2)

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sunday 2008-10-05 10:52, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Reducing the overhead before merging will make me a lot more
>> comfortable accepting this patch without seeing any numbers
>> since its adding overhead to one of the hottest spots of ruleset
>> evaluation.
>>
> Ok just let me rebase all the stuff, and I'll send you something
> that goes on top of 8d51a66159a6fbc27342ee80e5b69910a679735e .

Thanks. As an added explanation - the benchmarking I did for nftables
indicated that we're somewhere between 50 and 110 cycles for a "usual"
rule on my x2. So its really easy to degrade performance significantly
by just requiring a few more cycles. The upside is that it works in both
directions :)

>>> Yup. When space is tight (and we only have like 74 chars to make it
>>> fit onto a screen, accounting for the git-log indent and one extra
>>> byte), it will have to do without the subsystem.
>> No, I'm adding it anyways and exceeding the limit is fine for
>> changelogs if it aids in readability. So please just add it so
>> I don't have to edit the descriptions every time.
> 
> Aye, sir!

Thanks.