From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 15/25] pesto: Expose list of pifs to pesto
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:31:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acOddyFHCmkuMKgy@zatzit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260325091759.6d199841@elisabeth>
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 09:18:00AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:34:02 +1100
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 01:56:22AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > So, you've convinced me in principle, but I'm not putting this at the
> > top of my priorities. Using malloc() makes things a bit easier while
> > we're playing around with the protocol a bunch. Once we look
> > reasonably close to a v1 protocol, I'll do the malloc() removal.
>
> Sure, it makes sense, it's definitely not needed right now. I guess it
> will mostly be a matter of passing a number to the _str() functions and
> share constants between client and server.
I've actually already eliminated the _str() functions in my latest
draft. The less convenient case is allocating the arrays of pifs and
rules, I'll tackle that when I get to it.
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-23 7:37 [PATCH v3 00/25] RFC: Read-only dynamic update implementation David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 01/25] conf: runas can be const David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 02/25] vhost_user: Fix assorted minor cppcheck warnings David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 03/25] serialise: Split functions user for serialisation from util.c David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:54 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 1:50 ` David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 04/25] serialise: Add helpers for serialising unsigned integers David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 05/25] fwd: Move selecting correct scan bitmap into fwd_sync_one() David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 06/25] fwd: Look up rule index in fwd_sync_one() David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 07/25] fwd: Store forwarding tables indexed by (origin) pif David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:54 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:04 ` David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 08/25] fwd: Allow FWD_DUAL_STACK_ANY flag to be passed directly to fwd_rule_add() David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:54 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:07 ` David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 09/25] fwd, conf: Expose ephemeral ports as bitmap rather than function David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 10/25] conf: Don't bother complaining about overlapping excluded ranges David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 11/25] conf: Move check for mapping port 0 to caller David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 12/25] conf: Move check for disabled interfaces earlier David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 13/25] pesto: Introduce stub configuration interface and tool David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:54 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 14/25] pesto: Add command line option parsing and debug messages David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:55 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:27 ` David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 15/25] pesto: Expose list of pifs to pesto David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:56 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:34 ` David Gibson
2026-03-25 8:18 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 8:31 ` David Gibson [this message]
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 16/25] ip: Prepare ip.[ch] for sharing with pesto tool David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 17/25] inany: Prepare inany.[ch] " David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 18/25] fwd: Split forwading rule specification from its implementation state David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 19/25] ip: Define a bound for the string returned by ipproto_name() David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 20/25] fwd_rule: Move forwarding rule text formatting to common code David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:56 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:42 ` David Gibson
2026-03-25 8:18 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 23:54 ` David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 21/25] pesto: Read current ruleset from passt/pasta and display it David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:56 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:43 ` David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 22/25] conf: Move port parsing functions to own file, ports.c David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 23/25] conf, fwd, ports, util: Move things around for pesto David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 24/25] pesto, conf: Parse, send and receive new rules David Gibson
2026-03-23 7:37 ` [PATCH v3 25/25] conf, fwd: Allow switching to new rules received from pesto David Gibson
2026-03-23 8:38 ` [PATCH v3 00/25] RFC: Read-only dynamic update implementation David Gibson
2026-03-25 0:56 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 1:00 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-03-25 4:44 ` David Gibson
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