From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
zbr@ioremap.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:35:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2F8C5C.5050108@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610.010828.81117955.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:21:45 +0200
>
>> I'd also suggest to get rid of the 64k attribute and message size
>> limit at the same time, this is making it quite hard to support
>> transactional semantics for large updates (f.i. for nf_tables sets).
>
> Another option is to support continuations of some sort.
Yes, something like NLM_F_MULTI to accumulate multiple messages might
help. I'm not sure yet whether this can be used to make the entire
operation atomic since the individual attributes still can't span more
than one skb, but it looks worth a try.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 17:04 [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol Neil Horman
2009-03-03 18:19 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-03-03 19:21 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-03 22:14 ` David Miller
2009-03-03 22:16 ` David Miller
2009-03-04 10:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-04 11:00 ` David Miller
2009-04-02 9:39 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 9:50 ` David Miller
2009-04-02 9:52 ` David Miller
2009-04-02 9:59 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 14:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 14:45 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 14:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 14:59 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 15:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 15:09 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 15:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-02 15:30 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-05 9:59 ` David Miller
2009-04-06 13:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-10 8:08 ` David Miller
2009-06-10 10:35 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-04-05 9:57 ` David Miller
2009-04-05 9:56 ` David Miller
2009-04-05 9:54 ` David Miller
2009-03-04 11:44 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-05 19:27 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-11 16:17 ` David Miller
2009-03-11 19:51 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-13 19:10 ` David Miller
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