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SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/29] netfilter: notify about NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 17:17 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>
>>I don't really see why
>>queueing is special though, dropping the packets in the ruleset
>>will break things just as well, as will routing them to a blackhole.
>>I guess the user just needs to be smart enough not to do this.
>
>
> Its user-space and no emergency packet may rely on user-space because it
> most likely is needed to maintain user-space.

I believe I might have misunderstood the intention of this patch.

Assuming the user is smart enough not to queue packets destined
to a SOCK_VMIO socket, are you worried about unrelated packets
allocated from the emergency reserve not getting freed fast
enough because they're sitting in a queue? In that case simply
dropping the packets would be fine I guess.

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