From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] netfilter: nf_tables: move chain handling to the transaction infrastructure
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:10:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140328131000.GF7895@macbook.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395957197-4899-7-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:53:16PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> This patch speeds up rule-set updates and it helps to leave chains
> in consistent state when processing a batch. Note this patch does
> not introduce a way to revert chain updates, eg. counter or default
> policy changes.
Also it doesn't seem to handle chain renames. I think this is a conceptual
shortcoming, there's no way to implement updates properly by just storing
the chain in the transaction, we need to store the actual actions to be
performed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-28 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-27 21:53 [PATCH 0/7] new transaction infrastructure for nf_tables Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] netfilter: nf_tables: deconstify table and chain in context structure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 12:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-03-28 12:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 2/7] netfilter: nf_tables: generalise transaction infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 12:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 3/7] netfilter: nf_tables: relocate commit and abort routines in the source file Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 4/7] netfilter: nf_tables: better encapsulation for the rule transaction code Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 12:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 5/7] netfilter: nf_tables: move set handling to the transaction infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 13:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 6/7] netfilter: nf_tables: move chain " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 13:10 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2014-03-27 21:53 ` [PATCH 7/7] netfilter: nf_tables: move table " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 13:12 ` Patrick McHardy
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