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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 2/3] meta: add prandom matching
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:46:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160204144646.GA25780@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB5D81F9-A143-4DE6-A315-465B72EA84B3@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> Am 2. Februar 2016 00:19:00 MEZ, schrieb Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>:
> >
> > enum datatypes {
> > 	TYPE_INVALID,
> >@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ enum datatypes {
> > 	TYPE_ICMPV6_CODE,
> > 	TYPE_ICMPX_CODE,
> > 	TYPE_DEVGROUP,
> >+	TYPE_PROBABILITY,
> > 	__TYPE_MAX
> > 
> 
> Any reason why you chose to add this type instead of a generic floating point type?

I wanted 0.9999 be tranlated to a value close to UINT32_MAX and 0.00001
to something close to zero so that "meta random 0.999" can be translated to
something like

reg1 = prandom_u32()
reg1 <= 0xffffffee

I.e. this type cannot represent 5.2 (or whatever).

Does that answer your question?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-04 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 23:18 [PATCH nft 0/3] meta: random match for statistic sampling Florian Westphal
2016-02-01 23:18 ` [PATCH nft 1/3] evaluate: move default op lookup into helper Florian Westphal
2016-02-01 23:19 ` [PATCH nft 2/3] meta: add prandom matching Florian Westphal
2016-02-04 14:39   ` Patrick McHardy
2016-02-04 14:46     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2016-02-04 15:27       ` Patrick McHardy
2016-02-04 15:32         ` Florian Westphal
2016-02-04 16:09           ` Florian Westphal
2016-02-04 16:42             ` Florian Westphal
2016-02-04 17:40               ` Patrick McHardy
2016-02-15 12:54                 ` Florian Westphal
2016-02-16 11:45                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-02-16 12:00                     ` Florian Westphal
2016-02-16 16:28                       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-02-04 17:38             ` Patrick McHardy
2016-02-01 23:19 ` [PATCH nft 3/3] tests: add test cases for meta random Florian Westphal
2016-02-03 20:23 ` [PATCH nft 0/3] meta: random match for statistic sampling Pablo Neira Ayuso

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