From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] netfilter: nf_tables: set selection Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:53:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20140331115333.GA3623@localhost> References: <1396001988-32338-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:56184 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752602AbaCaLxi (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:53:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1396001988-32338-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:19:46AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote: > These patches implement the basic set selection mechanism based on data > characteristics provided by userspace. So far we only need to know the > maximum number of elements. > > Instead of trying to anticipate the information future set types will > need, the plan is to add more as we require it under the assumption > that we will converge to a state where a new set type already has > all information required available. The expectation is that most set > types will require the same information for estimation since they > most likely will be some type of tree or trie. I'm going to include this in the next batch for net-next before merge window closes, which should happen soon. Thanks a lot Patrick.