On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:35:19AM -0400, jamal wrote:
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> All actions (on a per-type hash table basis) have an index.
> You create filter rule X and specify action nat.
> You may specify the index of the action when you create the filter X. 
> If you then create another filter rule Y, also using the same action
> index, then that nat action is shared between rule X and rule Y[1].

This is exactly what I want to get rid of because otherwise even
if no index was specified we'll still do a hash insertion which
simply falls apart with a small hash table.  Using a large hash
table on the other is bad for people who only have a few rules.

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> [1]This is useful for tow reasons:
> a) memory saving purposes: If you dont care that much about performance
> or on a uniprocessor machine, one action would just be sufficient for
> many rules.
> b) accounting purposes; as you know qdiscs/filters/actions are
> per-device. Over the years, a need has arosen from some users to have a
> "per system" accounting (refer to the IMQ/IFB approach). Eg, if i wanted
> the policer action to account for ingress eth0 and egress eth1 for a
> user, i couldnt do it without some acrobatics.

We could do a dynamic table but so far I'm not convinced that
it's worth anybody's effort to implement :)

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