Re: [PATCH nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nft_counter: add per-cpu support

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:25:30AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 18.06, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > This patch adds rule per-cpu counters. This introduces a new NFTA_COUNTER_TYPE
> > netlink attribute to indicate the type of counters to be used. The default is
> > the compact seqlock representation for compatibility.
> 
> I don't think that userspace should care about the implementation details.
> I'd just switch to percpu unconditionally.

Will send a v2.

I can't find a use-case for the compact memory representation of the
seqlock counter, but if that ever happens we can go back to this type
attribute so the user can select.
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