netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress actions

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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:53:57 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
CC:     Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress
 actions

On 09/26/2016 05:12 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
[...]
> I would just care that we sometimes reschedule and don't do everything
> in one stack so we don't corrupt the machine and an admin has still a
> chance to solve the problem.

Sounds reasonable to me, and which is what dev_forward_skb() is doing
implicitly as well.