From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: nf_tables: set timeout support
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:52:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150402085200.GA18386@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427373580-19310-1-git-send-email-kaber@trash.net>
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:39:35PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> These patches add support for set timeouts. Sets can have a default
> timeout value that can be overriden by element specific timeouts.
>
> Removal of expired elements will usually be performed by a garbage
> collector for two reasons: avoiding an excessive number of timers
> and because data deinit has to happen in process context.
>
> The first two patches add the required netlink attributes, parsing,
> dump etc. A set of GC helper functions for batched RCU element
> destruction is added in patch three, some synchronization helpers
> to avoid races between async GC and netlink insertion and removal
> of elements are added in patch four.
>
> Following patches will use this infrastrucure to support set updates
> from the packet classification path for dynamic sets and dynamic
> flow state maintenance.
>
> Please apply, thanks!
Series applied, thanks Patrick.
BTW, what's your plan with the rbtree and timeouts?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-02 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-26 12:39 [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: nf_tables: set timeout support Patrick McHardy
2015-03-26 12:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: nf_tables: add set timeout API support Patrick McHardy
2015-03-26 12:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] netfilter: nf_tables: add set element timeout support Patrick McHardy
2015-03-26 12:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: nf_tables: add set garbage collection helpers Patrick McHardy
2015-03-26 12:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_tables: add GC synchronization helpers Patrick McHardy
2015-03-26 12:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nft_hash: add support for timeouts Patrick McHardy
2015-04-02 8:52 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2015-04-02 9:20 ` [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: nf_tables: set timeout support Patrick McHardy
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