From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Enrico Weigelt Subject: Re: Text based filesystem interfaces (instead of netlink) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:32:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20071201193243.GA12864@nibiru.local> References: <20071130115747.GB28817@nibiru.local> Reply-To: weigelt@metux.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter team * G.W. Haywood 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 ? cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------