Re: [PATCH 0/7 RFC] Netfilter/nf_tables ingress support

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On 14.04, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 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* ;-)

I'm just arguing, not implementing :)
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