From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables: use skb->len for accounting
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:58:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279868302.2482.113.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikFp9tjtYz5c0GTOfcS1DD8v6fLvBUVVeBVbsns@mail.gmail.com>
Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 14:47 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 11:34 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
> >> iptables: use skb->len for accounting
> >>
> >> use skb->len for accounting as xt_quota does.
> >>
> >
> > Why ?
> >
> > This is a gratuitous change, unless you have very strong arguments.
> >
> > xt_quota is an exception, dont change all others because of it !
>
> exception ? Why ?
Because it handles all protocols...
So skb->len is a shortcut, an approximation if you want.
At IPV4 level, ip->tot_len is an exact value.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-23 3:34 [PATCH] iptables: use skb->len for accounting Changli Gao
2010-07-23 6:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-23 6:47 ` Changli Gao
2010-07-23 6:58 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-07-23 11:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-07-23 12:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-23 14:25 ` Patrick McHardy
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