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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
To: Thomas Jacob <jacob@internet24.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
Subject: Patches solving the same issue!?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:57:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215032251.9467.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215021635-28691-2-git-send-email-jacob@internet24.de>


I can see from the list that Thomas Jacob <jacob@internet24.de>, and I
have just posted patches solving the same issue.

I promised Patrick that I would work on this issue, and I did.

Its running on our production servers, and I planned to release the
patch today as it has proven stable on production.  I guess Thomas was
just slightly faster than me ;-)

It was actually already released in the CPAN module IPTables::libiptc
(ver.0.08 released 2008-06-16).


We both use binary search, but with two slightly different approaches.

- My patch uses the existing data structure, and the existing
  algorithm for binary searching.

- Thomas builds a new data structure and implements a new binary
  search algorithm.

I must give Thomas that this binary search algo (taken from wikipedia)
is much more compact than the existing one.

Guess I cannot judge what patch is the best, as I'm biased...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-02 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-02 18:00 [PATCH 0/3] Further speedup of iptables when modifying an existing ruleset Thomas Jacob
2008-07-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] Speed up verdict to chain_head mapping by using binary search Thomas Jacob
2008-07-02 18:00   ` [PATCH 2/3] Spelling Thomas Jacob
2008-07-02 18:00     ` [PATCH 3/3] Coding style Thomas Jacob
2008-07-02 20:57   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2008-07-02 21:47     ` Patches solving the same issue!? Thomas Jacob
2008-07-02 22:02       ` Thomas Jacob
2008-07-03 10:53       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2008-07-03 11:17         ` Thomas Jacob
2008-07-03 12:42     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 14:30       ` Thomas Jacob
2008-07-03 14:33         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-04  7:09           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer

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