Hi Pablo, On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 03:34:55PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > If --echo is passed, then the cache already contains the commands that > have been sent to the kernel. However, anonymous sets are an exception > since the cache needs to be updated in this case. > > Remove the old cache logic from the monitor code that has been replaced > by 01e5c6f0ed03 ("src: add cache level flags"). > > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This is a nice solution, thanks! A few nits below: [...] > diff --git a/src/monitor.c b/src/monitor.c > index 40c381149cda..b7b00d7b1343 100644 > --- a/src/monitor.c > +++ b/src/monitor.c > @@ -609,6 +609,12 @@ static void netlink_events_cache_addset(struct netlink_mon_handler *monh, > goto out; > } > > + if (nft_output_echo(&monh->ctx->nft->output) && > + !(s->flags & NFT_SET_ANONYMOUS)) { There is set_is_anonymous(), set and element printing callbacks use it as well. [...] > @@ -636,6 +642,10 @@ static void netlink_events_cache_addsetelem(struct netlink_mon_handler *monh, > goto out; > } > > + if (nft_output_echo(&monh->ctx->nft->output) && > + !(set->flags & NFT_SET_ANONYMOUS)) Same here. [...] > @@ -744,7 +754,8 @@ out: > static void netlink_events_cache_update(struct netlink_mon_handler *monh, > const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int type) > { > - if (!monh->cache_needed) > + if (nft_output_echo(&monh->ctx->nft->output) && > + type != NFT_MSG_NEWSET && type != NFT_MSG_NEWSETELEM) > return; I would use switch() here, like so: | if (nft_output_echo(&monh->ctx->nft->output)) { | switch (type) { | case NFT_MSG_NEWSET: | case NFT_MSG_NEWSETELEM: | break; | default: | return; | } | } it emphasises that code is filtering for certain event types. Up to you, I'm fine with both. Thanks, Phil