Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification

Roberto Nibali
2002-09-26T09:18:04Z

> I'm not talking about cpu second level cache, I'm talking about
> a second level lookup table that backs up a front end routing
> hash. A software data structure.

Doh! Sorry for my confusion, I guess I wasn't reading your posting too
carefully. I understand the software architecture part now. Nevertheless
one day or another you will need to face the caching issue too unless
your data structure will always fit entirely into the cache or am I
completely off track again?

> You are talking about a lot of independant things, but I'm going
> to defer my contributions until we have actual code people can
> start plugging netfilter into if they want.

Fair enough. I'm looking forward to seeing this framework. Any release
schedules or rough plans?

> About using syslog to record messages, that is doomed to failure,
> implement log messages via netlink and use that to log the events
> instead.

Yes, we're doing tests in this field now (as with evlog) but as it seems
from preliminary testing netlink transportation of binary data is not
100% reliable either. However, I will refrain from further posting
assumptions until we've done our tests and until we can post useful
results and facts in this field.

Thanks and cheers,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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