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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: add locking for counters zeroing
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:57:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DA7166.6070408@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DA6E01.2020101@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> Of course. You still have to add the spin_lock, preferably outside of 
>> the loop
>> so it does not get necessarily dropped/re-picked-up.
>
> Yes, but even more preferrably is don't huring normal dumps for 
> counter zeroing.
-EUNPARSABLE :)

It meant to say: "even more preferrably it shouldn't hurt normal dumps".


> So I think we should split the operations. 


      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-24 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 16:46 [PATCH] netfilter: add locking for counters zeroing Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki
2008-09-24 16:01 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-24 16:08   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-09-24 16:11     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-24 16:27       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-09-24 16:42         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-09-24 16:57           ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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