* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-08-25 12:29 > This patch adds support to mask the nfmark value before the lookup > the the fw classifier. Unfortunately it has some drawbacks, so I'd > be interested if anyone can think of a better way. > > The problem is that in order to avoid walking through all filters > contained in one instance, we need to mask the value before the > lookup. This means all filters share the same mask, which is > taken from the first filter created and stored in the filter head. > The user interface however always refers to a single filter, > not the head, so it can't be changed afterwards unless we just > overwrite it whenever a new filter is installed. Both is not > really perfect. The current patch doesn't allow to change the > mark and enforces that all filters use the same one, which I think > is better than allowing inconsistent configurations.
The other option gets down to replacing the hash table with a list and that's not an option in my opinion. This looks very good to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
