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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: netfilter team <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Text based filesystem interfaces (instead of netlink)
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:32:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071201193243.GA12864@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0711301242030.11051@mail3.jubileegroup.co.uk>

* G.W. Haywood <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> 
> > ... I wondered why netfilter doesn't do the kernel interface
> > entirely via an synthetic filesystem (or maybe within sysfs).  ...
> 
> Performance?

Really ? 
How often are the netfilter rules touched ? More than once a day ? 
And is it really that much more expensive to call sscanf() than
first creating the netlink packages and later parsing them again ?


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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30 11:57 Text based filesystem interfaces (instead of netlink) Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-30 12:42 ` G.W. Haywood
2007-12-01 19:32   ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2007-12-01 22:05     ` G.W. Haywood

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