Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: nf_tables: handle chain name lookups via rhltable

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On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 11:41:06PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> If there is a significant amount of chains list search is too slow, so
> add an rhlist table for this.
> 
> This speeds up ruleset loading: for every new rule we have to check if
> the name already exists in current generation.
> 
> We need to be able to cope with duplicate chain names in case a transaction
> drops the nfnl mutex (for request_module) and the abort of this old
> transaction is still pending.
> 
> The list is kept -- we need a way to iterate chains even if hash resize is
> in progress without missing an entry.

Applied, thanks Florian.
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