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On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 21:40 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> I actually meant the scalability with adding/deleting flows,
> or in the case with qdiscs, filters.

Ah yes, them locks. Unless you start doing per-cpu tables
with lazy synchronization i am not sure how to avoid that.
Note: last time (time flies) i compared against iptables, the tc flow
setup/teardown was pretty consistent regardless of table size
relatively speaking.

cheers,
jamal