On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 01:39:18PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: Pablo Neira Ayuso > > Sent: 09 April 2015 12:35 > ... > > Add support for element timeouts to nft_hash. The lookup and walking > > functions are changed to ignore timed out elements, a periodic garbage > > collection task cleans out expired entries. > > You probably want to delete timed out entries during insert. > If you do that you don't really need a garbage collector. Exploring a synchronous solution from the Netlink API sounds like an interesting idea to me. > I'd also worry about re-adding a timed out entry. It seems we re-add it as a new entry. -- 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
