From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: "G.W. Haywood" <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk>
Cc: Cristian Constantin <const.crist@googlemail.com>,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nft set load metrics
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:12:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVX+H2beQxcGw4sl@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b943f279-73a-303e-3244-ed7fd4d4949@jubileegroup.co.uk>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 06:34:52PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Cristian Constantin wrote:
>
> > ... reading large packets over netlink sockets just to count the
> > elements in the sets does not seem very efficient.
>
> Agreed.
>
> It seems to me that if you need to read what you've put in the sets
> for the purposes of some facility, then you need to store it in RAM.
>
> It doesn't make sense to me to try to use netfilter as a kind of RAM;
> as you say that will be very inefficient.
Exposing the number of set elements is feasible and it sounds useful too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-30 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-30 11:21 nft set load metrics Cristian Constantin
2021-09-30 14:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-09-30 15:47 ` Cristian Constantin
2021-09-30 17:34 ` G.W. Haywood
2021-09-30 18:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2021-09-30 19:01 ` Cristian Constantin
2021-09-30 18:04 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-09-30 18:46 ` Cristian Constantin
2021-10-02 11:54 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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