Re: [PATCH 0/4] Netfilter ingress support (v3)

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On 05/05/15 at 12:21am, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 01:05:08PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > [...] TC critical path becomes slower with extra dereference and
> > indirect jump.
> 
> You complained on the performance impact of the initial generic hook
> infrastructure that allows qdisc ingress and nft to co-exist, fair
> enough.
> 
> I came back with an even more simple hook infrastructure, to address
> performance concerns, and you indicate that an *extra dereference and
> indirect jump* makes this slowier and that both cannot co-exist with
> this.
> 
> Well, any kind of hook generalization will need at least those minimal
> changes. And that allows us to move code that belongs to sch_ingress.
> That got embedded into net/core/dev.c because at the time this code
> was made when there was no RCU around.

Does anything speak against a separate hook with a static key?
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