* G.W. Haywood <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > ... I wondered why netfilter doesn't do the kernel interface > > entirely via an synthetic filesystem (or maybe within sysfs). ... > > Performance? Really ? How often are the netfilter rules touched ? More than once a day ? And is it really that much more expensive to call sscanf() than first creating the netlink packages and later parsing them again ? cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
