Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:00:53 +0200 | From | "Jan Kiszka" <> | Subject | Re: Van Jacobson's net channels and real-time |
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2006/4/27, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>: > > Can I recommend a trip to the local university engineering library for > a quick readup on the current state of the art wrt. packet > classification algorithms? > > Barring that, a read of chapter 12 "Packet Classification" > from Networking Algorithmics will give you a great primer. > > I'm suggesting this, because all I see is fishing around with > painfully inefficient algorithms. > > In any event, the initial net channel implementation will likely just > do straight socket hash lookups identical to how TCP does socket > lookups in the current stack. Full match on established sockets, and > failing that fall back to the listening socket lookup which allows > some forms of wildcarding. >
Sorry that you had to remind of the different primary goals. I think we may look for something pluggable to support both large-scale rule tables as well as small ones for embedded RT-systems.
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