On 16/12/15(Wed) 13:30, Alexandr Nedvedicky wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:35:41PM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > On 16/12/15(Wed) 10:19, Alexandr Nedvedicky wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:48:49PM +1300, Richard Procter wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > >    Yet another possibility is to drop 'once' rules as too complex to
> > > > > >    implement for multiprocessor but I have no idea if this is 
> > > > > > viable.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is.  And I have said that before with an authority of the 
> > > > > implementor
> > > > > of "once" rules: since we don't have any userland applications that
> > > > > would use this yet, we can ditch them for now and possibly devise a
> > > > > better approach later.
> > > >  
> > > > > Don't make your lives harder than they have to be!
> > > > 
> > > > I tend to agree! And I can't see a way to reimplement it for a 
> > > > multithreaded pf without introducing downsides.
> > 
> > Guys, if none of you can come with a valid reason to keep "once" rules
> > please kill them.
> > 
> > There's so much work to do to make pf(4) runnable on multiple CPUs in
> > parallel that bikescheding/turd-polishing bits that are not used are
> > IMHO not the way to go.
> 
> The patch I've sent recently works just fine for Solaris. So ONCE rules are no
> issue. I like the idea of once rules as they make life potentially easier for
> application proxies.

If "potentially easier" is good enough for you then please move forward
:)

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