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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.

  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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