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Date:   Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:03:34 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To:     Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 7/9] net/netfilter: Add unstable CT lookup
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 09:01:29PM +0530, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:39:14PM IST, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 06:32:28PM +0530, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:
> > [...]
> > >  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  7 files changed, 497 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> > > index 770a63103c7a..85042cb6f82e 100644
> > > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> > > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> >
> > Please, keep this new code away from net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> 
> Ok. Can it be a new file under net/netfilter, or should it live elsewhere?

IPVS and OVS use conntrack for already quite a bit of time and they
keep their code in their respective folders.

Thanks.