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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:43:14 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbenc@...hat.com
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, jhs@...atatu.com, tgraf@...g.ch,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink: fix netlink_ack with large messages

From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:25:04 +0100

> I completely agree with this, sorry for not being clear. I just
> understood from the thread that the way to go is to do both, in order
> to not generate too large ACKs for the _new_ code (i.e. for the
> messages that were not plausible before "netlink: allow large data
> transfers from user-space"). I don't know what the "too large" should
> be, though, hence the question.
> 
> But then, if we don't do any capping, the only outcome of a failed
> allocation is the ACK won't be sent and it's clearly stated that
> netlink does not provide reliability. Works for me.

Of course, we should meanwhile add the large SKB handling to the
netlink ACK code.

Therefore, please resubmit your original patch, but modify it as
I asked such that only the ACK code path gets the new large SKB
call.

Thanks.
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