From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, shivanib134@gmail.com,
outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] extensions: libxt_statistic: Add translation to nft
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:29:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160302152946.GH4348@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160302151724.GB5844@salvia>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> In all this thread you talk all the time on probability semantics,
> however the selector name is 'random'.
>
> Why don't you rename this to 'meta probability' instead?
>
> No changes in the semantics then, just use:
>
> meta probability 0.1
>
> and when expressing the opposite:
>
> meta probability 0.9
I have no preferences one way or another, i'd
be fine with using probability for this.
In future you might want to allow something like
nft add rule filter input meta mark set meta random
or
nft add rule filter input queue num meta random
Perhaps we should use probability for now and later
alias is to random for these cases?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 20:40 [PATCH v3] extensions: libxt_statistic: Add translation to nft Laura Garcia Liebana
2016-03-02 11:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-02 12:10 ` Florian Westphal
2016-03-02 12:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-02 12:37 ` Florian Westphal
2016-03-02 12:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-02 13:44 ` Florian Westphal
2016-03-02 13:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2016-03-02 14:50 ` Florian Westphal
2016-03-02 14:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2016-03-02 14:59 ` Florian Westphal
2016-03-02 15:17 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-02 15:29 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2016-03-02 15:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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