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Re: invoke scheduler for every received packet

To: Roberto Nibali <ratz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: invoke scheduler for every received packet
Cc: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:58:00 -0400
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:44:24AM +0200, Roberto Nibali wrote:

[snip]

> The only problem I see hindering it from immediate inclusion is that 
> potential user space breakage. In short time, I think it can be solved 
> by adding another long option like "--flags" to ipvsadm, which queries 
> the kernel for the flags being set. This would need another kernel 
> function in ip_vs_ctl.c, since IIRC it's not there yet. I'd do it, 
> however I have absolutely no time until Sunday. And if Sunday is again 
> as sunny as it has been the past 2 months, I'll be outside doing sports 
> and sun-bathing.

I agree that the user-space breakage needs to be avioided, and
I agree that a --flags type approach will do this, and be consistent
which how this kind of problem has been handled in the past.

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