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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] netfilter: nf_tables: improvements for the existing transaction approach
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130520134725.GA20912@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369054843-14591-2-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:00:43PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> * One transaction comes in one batch packet composed of several
>   netlink messages from user-space.
> 
> * All rule updates are handled as transactions.
> 
> * No need for explicit begin, commit and abort commands.

We seem to need an explicit commit operation, we still have to support
iptables-restore -t, in that case the rule-set update is not applied.
This is supported with the current approach but this RFC does not
cover that case.  I'm going to give it another try to re-spin to this.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-20 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20 13:00 [RFC 1/2] netfilter: nfnetlink: add commit operation to nfnl_subsystems Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-05-20 13:00 ` [RFC 2/2] netfilter: nf_tables: improvements for the existing transaction approach Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-05-20 13:47   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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