Second day of the Netfilter Workshop

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:00:00 CEST

We had lots of nice talks and discussions today as well. The workshop has come up with possible solutions for many current problems and issues. Hopefully many of them will result in patches :)

The pub/restaurant we ended up at in the evening was a bit interesting. Instead of tables and chairs it had kind of a bleacher were everyone sat, drank beer and ate their food. Me and Harald yet again failed to go to sleep when we got back to the hotel, once again we ended up discussing a lot of diffrent topics, including why it is that noone seems to have implemented an open software stack for the AC97 compatible winmodems present in almost all newer laptops. That discussion ended up discussing signal processing and other weird things people have done that makes writing a stack for these modems sound not all that difficult (that is, if you know what you are doing, which I don't :)
I've been hacking on the hashtrie during the day, deletes are now a lot faster and forced eviction of certain entries (with a special status) is implemented and it appears to be really fast as well. But this new feature will have to undergo a lot of testing to make sure we're not ending up evicting the wrong entries, agewise that is. Somehow I keep thinking that if I implement something new and it turns out it's fast, it must be broken in some way.

I also got some more free tshirts, which is always welcome :)