From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: 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 16:56:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160302155657.GA6299@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160302152946.GH4348@breakpoint.cc>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 04:29:46PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> 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
Right.
> or
> nft add rule filter input queue num meta random
Yes, this reminds me we have to fix nft_queue so it also accepts a
sreg as input. It's not very flexible and we cannot use maps with it.
> Perhaps we should use probability for now and later
> alias is to random for these cases?
+1 to using meta probability for this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 15:57 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
2016-03-02 15:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160302155657.GA6299@salvia \
--to=pablo@netfilter.org \
--cc=fw@strlen.de \
--cc=jengelh@inai.de \
--cc=netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nevola@gmail.com \
--cc=outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com \
--cc=shivanib134@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).