On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 06:49:53PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > This improves cache population quite a bit and therefore helps when > dealing with large rulesets. A simple hard to improve use-case is > listing the last rule in a large chain. You might consider extending the netlink interface too for this particularly case, GETRULE plus position attribute could be used for this I think. You won't be able to use this new operation from userspace anytime soon though, given there is no way so far to expose interface capabilities so far rather than probing. If there are more particular corner cases like this, I would also encourage to extend the netlink interface. Just a side note, not a comment specifically on this patch :-).
