Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:48:34 +0300 From: Tatsiana Elavaya <t.elavaya@gmail.com> To: soc-status@freebsd.org Subject: ipfw rule processing optimization and high level language Message-ID: <ced259440906070748n54032756w8d406a740424678a@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, During first two weeks I've add rule alias into ipfw and working on rule processing optimization. There is no rule optimization support in kernel yet. Addition of rule aliases resulted in API incompatibility, alias field was added to struct ip_fw. I'm going fix it shortly by using special ipfw instruction. Besides it seems I've spent to much time trying to fix a note bene from ipfw header: "in a couple of places we assume that sizeof(ipfw_insn) == sizeof(u_int32_t) this needs to be fixed". Actually there are just a few places where we do not assume that :) But it helped in finding a better way to store optimization data: instead of adding a field into ipfw_insn use separate instruction. So it would be possible not to break compatibility, and keep kernel changes at minimum. I'm also going change my code to use lists implementation from sys/queue.h next week.
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