From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: fw@strlen.de, fbl@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
agospoda@redhat.com, nhorman@redhat.com, lwoodman@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Add Network Sysrq Support
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:42:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E01C71C.5060003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622.033502.2198841895093553350.davem@davemloft.net>
On 06/22/2011 06:35 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:26:23 -0400
>
>
>> Using the netfilter xt-SYSRQ code seems to store the entered code and
>> execute it later after the system has returned to a normal state....
>> which is much too late to be useful.
>>
> So add a feature that allows xt-SYSRQ to not queue the request
> and instead execute it immediately in softirq context.
>
> I don't see what the big deal is.
>
I'm not familiar with the netfilter code and was about to ask some other
colleagues about it ... but I think you answered my main question which
was "does netfilter do things in interrupt context?"
P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-22 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 13:00 [PATCH]: Add Network Sysrq Support Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-21 17:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 18:30 ` Neil Horman
2011-06-21 20:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-21 20:37 ` Florian Westphal
2011-06-21 20:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-21 22:12 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-21 22:05 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-21 22:26 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-21 23:32 ` Flavio Leitner
2011-06-21 22:56 ` Florian Westphal
2011-06-21 22:58 ` David Miller
2011-06-22 10:26 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 10:35 ` David Miller
2011-06-22 10:42 ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2011-06-22 10:54 ` Florian Westphal
2011-06-22 12:19 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 12:37 ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 17:39 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-06-22 18:46 ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 20:29 ` David Miller
2011-06-22 18:57 ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 20:27 ` David Miller
2011-06-24 14:37 ` John Haxby
2011-06-22 7:55 ` WANG Cong
2011-06-22 15:29 ` Andi Kleen
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