Thomas Graf wrote: > * Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-08-25 12:29 > >>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.
Great, thanks. I'll send it off to Dave with two similar patches for IPv4 and DecNET routing rules. - 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
