Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: nft_queue: add _SREG_FROM and _SRGE_TO to select the queue numbers

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Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:22:57PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:12:26PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > > > My first thought was that it would be better to just support one single
> > > > sreg (the queue number) and eventually externalize the hashing/queue
> > > > selection:
> > > > 
> > > > queue num jhash ip saddr . ip daddr mod ...
> > > > 
> > > > Problem is that with plain jhash we won't get a symmetric hash
> > > > for origin and reply, so for this we would need a new expression/hash
> > > > mode.
> > > 
> > > Are you think of xor hashing to provide the symmetry? Downside is that
> > > bad tuple selection may result in poor distribution, but this is
> > > something we can document.
> > 
> > No, I was thinking of a new hash mode to do this, e.g. just do same
> > what current nfqueue selection does: hash lower address first.
> 
> Currently we have one single register pointing to the entire tuple
> concatenation that we hash, we would need to support multiple
> registers as input, check that they are consecutive. Then, the logic
> to compare the data. And a way to express this in syntax.

Ugh.  Ok, lets ignore this for now.
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