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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Quota on SMP AGAIN
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:15:32 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 31 2007 01:19, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>   
>>>
>>> What happens when CPU#0 is disabled (CPU hotplug)?
>>>       
>> Nothing, its simply unused except for counter synchronization and
>> the ->master thing this thread is about.
>>
>>     
>
> 01:57 ccgmbh:~ # taskset 1 iptables -I OUTPUT -m quota --quota 123456
>
> Now suppose CPU#0 was deactivated (taskset only to show what's meant).
> Then iptables would always show the wrong quota.
>   

Sure, because taskset is a workaround and not a fix for the problem.
Its still the exact same bug.