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Currently we have tables identified by their names in userland with internal kernel-assigned indices. This works the following way: When userland wishes to communicate with kernel to add or change rule(s), it makes indexed sorted array of table names (internally ipfw_obj_ntlv entries), and refer to indices in that array in rule manipulation. Prior to committing new rule to the ruleset kernel a) finds all referenced tables, bump their refcounts and change values inside the opcodes to be real kernel indices b) auto-creates all referenced but not existing tables and then do a) for them. Kernel does almost the same when exporting rules to userland: prepares array of used tables in all rules in range, and prepends it before the actual ruleset retaining actual in-kernel indexes for that. There is also special translation layer for legacy clients which is able to provide 'real' indices for table names (basically doing atoi()). While it is arguable that every subsystem really needs names instead of numbers, there are several things that should be noted: 1) every non-singleton subsystem needs to store its runtime state somewhere inside ipfw chain (and be able to get it fast) 2) we can't assume object numbers provided by humans will be dense. Existing nat implementation (O(n) access and LIST inside chain) is a good example. Hence the following: * Convert table-centric rewrite code to be more generic, callback-based * Move most of the code from ip_fw_table.c to ip_fw_sockopt.c * Provide abstract API to permit subsystems convert their objects between userland string identifier and in-kernel index. (See struct opcode_obj_rewrite) for more details * Create another per-chain index (in next commit) shared among all subsystems * Convert current NAT44 implementation to use new API, O(1) lookups, shared index and names instead of numbers (in next commit). Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
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