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Adds ability to use iptables-restore #124

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@trozet trozet commented Mar 28, 2024

This improves efficiency when adding a lot of rules to a table. Rather than calling insert or append for each rule, we can execute one iptables operation to replace them all.

This was identified to greatly improve the performance in ovn-kubernetes. The overall time of installing 1000 rules was taking 4.8 seconds by insert operations. By moving to this commit it only takes .058 seconds.

ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes#4241

ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes#4241 (comment)

This improves efficiency when adding a lot of rules to a table. Rather
than calling insert or append for each rule, we can execute one iptables
operation to replace them all.

Signed-off-by: Tim Rozet <[email protected]>
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trozet commented Apr 2, 2024

@squeed can you PTAL?

for chain, rules := range rulesMap {
restoreRules += "\n" + fmt.Sprintf(":%s - [0:0]", strings.ToUpper(chain))
for _, rule := range rules {
restoreRules += "\n" + fmt.Sprintf("-I %s %s", chain, strings.Join(rule, " "))
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Here I assumed Insert for the rules...but maybe it would be more appropriate to use Append. Another option is make it part of the rule, or make it a parameter to the function. I dont have any preference.

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I would personally expect Append but perhaps it could be documented that this is the behavior

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jcaamano commented May 6, 2024

@jcaamano tagging me here

@@ -554,6 +578,57 @@ func (ipt *IPTables) run(args ...string) error {
return ipt.runWithOutput(args, nil)
}

// runWithOutput runs an iptables command with the given arguments,
// writing any stdout output to the given writer
func (ipt *IPTables) runRestore(args []string, input string) error {

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I don't know if the maintainers are planning to merge this PR but it'd be nice to make this function public or maybe create a wrapper RestoreRaw(args []string, input string)

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