On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:39:35PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote: > These patches add support for set timeouts. Sets can have a default > timeout value that can be overriden by element specific timeouts. > > Removal of expired elements will usually be performed by a garbage > collector for two reasons: avoiding an excessive number of timers > and because data deinit has to happen in process context. > > The first two patches add the required netlink attributes, parsing, > dump etc. A set of GC helper functions for batched RCU element > destruction is added in patch three, some synchronization helpers > to avoid races between async GC and netlink insertion and removal > of elements are added in patch four. > > Following patches will use this infrastrucure to support set updates > from the packet classification path for dynamic sets and dynamic > flow state maintenance. > > Please apply, thanks! Series applied, thanks Patrick. BTW, what's your plan with the rbtree and timeouts? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
