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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:28:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279866523.2482.78.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1007230818260.815@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 08:20 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> On Friday 2010-07-23 06:54, Changli Gao wrote:
> 
> >This patch should be applied after my another patch:
> >http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/59729/
> >
> >xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace
> >
> >In nowadays, table entries are per-cpu variables, so it don't make any 
> >sense to copy quota back to one of the variable instances. To keep 
> >things simple, this patch undo the copy.
> 
> I object. This line is on purpose, to give at least a chance of 
> reporting back a more-or-less believable value. Without copying
> the value back, users have moaned about the counter not decreasing
> _at all_.

Maybe, but current situation is buggy.



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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-23  4:54 [PATCH] xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace Changli Gao
2010-07-23  5:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-23  5:40   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-23  5:52     ` Changli Gao
2010-07-23 12:10     ` Patrick McHardy
2010-07-23  5:43   ` Changli Gao
2010-07-23  6:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-07-23  6:28   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-07-23 12:03     ` Patrick McHardy

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