Hi David, On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:41:29PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:05:51 +0100 > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:22:26PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> > >> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:14:11 +0100 > >> > >> > OK, so reading between the lines you're saying that nftables project > >> > has failed to provide an adequate successor to iptables? > >> > >> Whilst it is great that the atomic table update problem was solved, I > >> think the emphasis on flexibility often at the expense of performance > >> was a bad move. > > > > I don't see a lack of performance in nftables when being compared to > > iptables (as we have now). From my point of view, it's quite the > > contrary: nftables did a great job in picking up iptables performance > > afterthoughts (e.g. ipset) and leveraging that to the max(TM) (verdict > > maps, concatenated set entries). Assuming the virtual machine design > > principle isn't just marketing but sets the course for JIT ruleset > > optimizations, there's some margin as well. > > > > So from my perspective, one should say nftables increased flexibility > > without sacrificing performance. > > I did not say nftables adjusted performance one way or another. It kept > it on the same order of magnitude. And this is a design decision. Oh, seems I missed your point then. What subject did you have in mind when you wrote "emphasis on flexibility often at the expense of performance"? I thought you were talking about nftables. > > Yes, even with my limited experience I noticed that there is quite some > > demand for even faster packet processing in Linux, mostly for rather > > custom scenarios like forwarding into containers/VMs. Though my point > > was about general purpose firewalling abilities in Linux, say people > > securing their desktop or maintaining networks with less demands on > > performance. > > I've always stated that low power, low end, systems are just a good > place for high performance filtering as high end ones. Do you think these systems are likely to receive a NIC (or some sort of co-processor) which allows for offloading eBPF to? Maybe I miss the point again, but this is the only argument for bpfilter over nftables - and that only if one ignores the option to implement an eBPF backend for nftables VM). OK, maybe this clarifies once I know what you had in mind when you wrote that reply. Cheers, Phil -- 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
