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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] netfilter: nf_tables: move chain handling to the
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:10:00 +0000
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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.