inside the kernel tags are given numeric identifiers, and these numbers are used everywhere. the length of the tag name doesnt affect performance.
> On 21 Apr 2023, at 04:10, Cristian Danila <clau...@postmail.ro> wrote: > > Hello Misc, > > I have a technical question in regards to PF tags. > I was always wondering if the length of tags matters > or not in terms of performance. > For example will PF use the same effort to match a tag > TEST_TEST_TEST_TEST_TEST as it would do for a tag A? > I am wondering if PF internally would just translate initially all > tags in a set of optimized id's and later will use only those id's > when tag filtering is used. > > I appreciate your answer. > With respect, > Claudiu >
