From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, tgraf@suug.ch,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] netfilter: preparatory patches for set extensions
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:44:18 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150323.164418.1520100994652735634.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426952290-18962-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net>
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:38:08 +0000
> These patches contain some prepraration for nftables set extensions.
> These extensions will allow to attach dynamically sized data to set
> elements, thereby moving the key to a non-fixed position.
>
> This requires nft_hash to use the rhashtable callbacks. Since the
> key length is variable, the length must be provided to the obj_hashfn.
>
> The patches change rhashtable to do so and do a conversion of nft_hash
> to rhashtable callbacks without any functional changes.
>
> @Dave and Pablo: these patches apply on top of nf-next and a bunch
> of patches I just sent to Pablo, but also need Herbert's recent
> changes in net-next. Additionally I have more patches coming up
> which depend on these changes. In order to simplify things, I'd
> suggest to have the rhashtable change go through Pablo's tree if
> you don't mind.
Pablo can take this stuff, no problem.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-23 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-21 15:38 [PATCH 0/2] netfilter: preparatory patches for set extensions Patrick McHardy
2015-03-21 15:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: provide len to obj_hashfn Patrick McHardy
2015-03-21 23:06 ` Herbert Xu
2015-03-22 4:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-03-22 7:22 ` Herbert Xu
2015-03-22 7:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-03-22 10:39 ` Thomas Graf
2015-03-21 15:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: nft_hash: convert to use rhashtable callbacks Patrick McHardy
2015-03-21 23:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] netfilter: preparatory patches for set extensions Herbert Xu
2015-03-22 4:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-03-23 20:44 ` David Miller [this message]
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