libpfctl: introduce state iterator
Allow consumers to start processing states as the kernel supplies them,
rather than having to build a full list and only then start processing.
Especially for very large state tables this can significantly reduce
memory use.
Without this change when retrieving 1M states time -l reports:
real 3.55 user 1.95 sys 1.05 318832 maximum resident set size 194 average shared memory size 15 average unshared data size 127 average unshared stack size 79041 page reclaims 0 page faults 0 swaps 0 block input operations 0 block output operations 15096 messages sent 250001 messages received 0 signals received 22 voluntary context switches 34 involuntary context switches
With it it reported:
real 3.32 user 1.88 sys 0.86 3220 maximum resident set size 195 average shared memory size 11 average unshared data size 128 average unshared stack size 260 page reclaims 0 page faults 0 swaps 0 block input operations 0 block output operations 15096 messages sent 250001 messages received 0 signals received 21 voluntary context switches 31 involuntary context switches
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