On 04/13/15 at 09:19pm, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Now the advantages of being able to use nft. First, the obvious > one is that we have a nice userspace tool, a well defined > grammar, and that people would be able to use the same tool for > very similar tasks. nftables in the kernel is almost completely > lockless, we support way more possibilites already and we won't > have to add new special case TC actions anymore. Look at the > connmark action for example. It can set a value. How long until > someone wants to use a bitmask? We support all operations > (assignment, bit operations) for all types, we have sets for fast > lookups, maps for associating values quickly, we have a nice and > readable syntax and full translation back to the readable > representation and much more. *cough* Performance numbers? *cough* ;-) -- 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
