Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 20:30 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > 3.16.37-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > > > know. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > > > From: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> > > > > > > commit 36472341017529e2b12573093cc0f68719300997 upstream. > > > > [..] > > > > > > > > The extra overhead is negible, even with absurd cases. > > > > Not true, the overhead is huge and increases restore time for > > large rulesets from mere seconds to minutes, see > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f4dc77713f8016d2e8a3295e1c9c53a21f296def > > So do you think I should add that to this update or defer the netfilter > changes to the next update?
Depends on what your focus is for 3.16. If your focus is to better not break anything I would just drop this patch and apply it for the next round with the fix (f4dc77713f8016d2e8a3295e1c9c53a21f296def) on top once it had more soak time.
