Re: [PATCH] [connlimit] connlimit-above early loop termination

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

On 11.02.2011 17:22, Stefan Berger wrote:
> The patch below introduces an early termination of the loop that is
> counting matches. It terminates once the counter has exceeded the
> threshold provided by the user. There's no point in continuing the loop
> afterwards and looking at other entries.
> 
> It plays together with the following code further below:
> 
> return (connections > info->limit) ^ info->inverse;
> 
> where connections is the result of the counted connection, which in turn
> is the matches variable in the loop. So once 
> 
>         -> matches = info->limit + 1    
> alias   -> matches > info->limit
> alias   -> matches > threshold 
> 
> we can terminate the loop.
> 

Applied, thanks Stefan.