Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:51:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: struct ifnet handling... Message-ID: <199805200751.JAA11403@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19980520001008.55413@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at May 20, 98 00:09:49 am
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> > but "chains" can be emulated with relative ease and efficiency > > using optimized SKIPTO instructions. > > Are you talking about automatically or by the user? If you're talking the "otimization" i am talking about is replacing rule numbers with pointers so that there is no need to scan the whole database each time. This is done automatically in my code, and the user knows nothing about it. I am not considering more sophisticated optimizations like 'hmmm this test was done earlier so let's just skip it'. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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