From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] xt_layer7 Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:59:29 +0200 Message-ID: <48EE0E41.9010905@trash.net> References: <38bcb3ec0810040022w79ccea3dk134c3f03d375a601@mail.gmail.com> <48E8C637.5060700@trash.net> <38bcb3ec0810061157k14d15ae3h902265f42095b469@mail.gmail.com> <38bcb3ec0810061248w71dd0480y56a014d0a015288@mail.gmail.com> <38bcb3ec0810081348r67ee499an7be14db05481cc96@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: James King , Matthew Strait , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:51946 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752173AbYJIN7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:59:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2008-10-08 16:48, James King wrote: >> Patrick, do you have any objections to these patches (specifically >> adding NF_CT_EXT_LAYER7), or were you just against Jan's suggestion = to >> make ct_extend to use a linked list for all extensions? If not, wou= ld >> you like me to send a proper patch series? >> > It is well understood that a linked list incurs a =E2=80=9Crather sig= nifcant=E2=80=9D > runtime hit. Due to simple lack of mass of extensions, we should > just go for the patch for now. So you want to keep this externally? Fine by me of course :) As I stated, I could probably be convinced to add a NF_CT_EXT_LIST extension where you could dynamically add things since its currently for free. But it might be too complicated since I think you would have to duplicate quite a bit of the ct_extend logic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-dev= el" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html