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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] db: add ring buffer for DB query
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 21:29:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130511192922.GA10791@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368168538-29780-10-git-send-email-eric@regit.org>

Hi Eric,

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:48:56AM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote:
> This patch adds an optional ring buffer option which modify
> the way database queries are made. The main thread is only handling
> kernel message reading and query formatting. The SQL request is made
> in a separate dedicated thread.
> The idea is to try to avoid buffer overrun by minimizing the time
> requested to treat kernel message. Doing synchronous SQL request, as
> it was made before was causing a delay which could cause some messages
> to be lost in case of burst from kernel side.

Would be feasible to make asynchronous SQL requests instead, so you
can skip the use of pthread?

Regards.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-11 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10  6:48 [PATCH RFC 0/11] ulogd2 db rework Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 01/11] ulogd: display stack during configuration Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 02/11] Fix automagic support of dbi, pcap and sqlite3 Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 03/11] postgresql: add sanity checking Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 04/11] mysql: " Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 05/11] sqlite3: " Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 06/11] db: store data in memory during database downtime Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 07/11] db: suppress field in db structure Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 08/11] db: use offset instead of direct pointer Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 09/11] db: add ring buffer for DB query Eric Leblond
2013-05-11 19:29   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2013-05-12 10:29     ` Eric Leblond
2013-05-21 13:38       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 10/11] db: disable SIGHUP if ring buffer is used Eric Leblond
2013-05-10  6:48 ` [PATCH 11/11] db: db ring has precedence over backlog Eric Leblond

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