Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 02:25:45PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > > Patch c5136b15ea36 ("netfilter: bridge: add and use br_nf_hook_thresh")
> > > introduced br_nf_hook_thresh().
> > >
> > > Replace NF_HOOK_THRESH() by br_nf_hook_thresh from
> > > br_nf_forward_finish(), so we have no more callers for this macro.
> > >
> > > As a result, state->thresh and explicit thresh parameter in the hook
> > > state structure is not required anymore.
> > >
> > > And we can get rid of fast forward code in nf_iterate() in the core path
> > > that is only used by br_netfilter to search for the filter hook.
> >
> > Note that you will need to move more parts of nf_hook_slow() into
> > br_nf_hook_thresh(); the bridge netfilter does need to thresh feature
> > that we have in nf_iterate().
>
> br_nf_hook_thresh() is already skipping hooks before NF_BR_PRI_BRNF to
> emulate thresh. What else is missing?
AFAICS you are removing the NF_BR_PRI_BRNF skipping in this patch,
it relied on nf_hook_slow to do this (plus the state->thresh thing).
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