From: subashab@codeaurora.org
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iptables] xtables: use exponential delay when waiting for xtables lock
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:14:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569a5c79f8ca32db942694308c3e1500@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160428092541.GB1529@salvia>
>>
>> This break the "-w" option's semantic, i.e. if the user input
>> "iptables -w 1", and concurrency happen,
>> we will just only wait 10ms and return an error.
>
> If there's any chance this patch can break existing setups then we
> can't take this.
>
> I'd suggest you add support to express millisecond precision using a
> dot notation, ie.
>
> -w .000001
>
> that means 10 ms.
Thanks Liping / Pablo for your comments.
I'll raise a new patchset for this.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-08 3:07 [PATCH iptables] xtables: use exponential delay when waiting for xtables lock Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2016-04-28 1:37 ` Liping Zhang
2016-04-28 9:25 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-28 19:14 ` subashab [this message]
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