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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: alexandre.ferrieux@orange.com
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfnetlink_queue -- why linear lookup ?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:56:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210816105641.GM607@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19560_1629111179_611A438B_19560_274_1_0633ee7a-2660-91b4-f1d7-adc727864376@orange.com>

alexandre.ferrieux@orange.com <alexandre.ferrieux@orange.com> wrote:
> Well, the problem is backwards compatibility. Indeed I'd propose more
> flexible batching via an array of ids instead of a maxid. But the main added
> value of this flexibility is to enable reused-small-integers ids, like file
> descriptors. As long as the maxid API remains in place, this is impossible.

You cannot remove the maxid API.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-16 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-13 11:55 nfnetlink_queue -- why linear lookup ? alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-14 21:01 ` Florian Westphal
2021-08-14 21:05   ` alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-14 21:12     ` Florian Westphal
2021-08-15 12:17       ` alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-15 13:07         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-08-15 13:32           ` alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-15 14:12             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-08-15 18:47               ` alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-16  9:05                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-08-16 10:53                   ` alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-16 10:56                     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2021-08-16 11:07                       ` alexandre.ferrieux
2021-08-16 11:19                     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-08-16 11:42                     ` Duncan Roe
2021-08-16 12:04               ` Duncan Roe
2021-08-16 16:10                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-08-16 16:15                   ` Florian Westphal
2021-08-17  4:03                   ` Duncan Roe
2021-08-15 13:33           ` alexandre.ferrieux

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