Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:40:38 +0100 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 18/29] netfilter: notify about NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs |
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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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