On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:40:44AM -0200, Victor Detoni wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working for a network security prototype and I would like to know the > best way to read diferent configs from the memory, for example: > > My program will receive many pkts from network interface and it needs to > know what's profile it will use based on source ip address. > > First all, I'm thinking to use array in C, for example: > > for (i=0;i<=PROFILES;i++) { > if (pkt.ip_addr == source_ip[i]) > do_something(pkt,i) > } > > I will process at about millions entries per second and ~100 profiles. What > do you think? It will work fine? fast? any suggest? > > thanks > Victor Hi Victor, I would consider using a simple hash table. Use ipaddr as a key to do fast lookup of the value. Take a look at scripts/fixdep.c which includes a FNV hash table implementation. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies