[Bridge] Re: [PATCH/RFC] Reduce call chain length in netfilter (was: Re: do_IRQ: stack overflow: 872..)

[David S. Miller]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:08:29 +0100
Martin Josefsson <gandalf at wlug.westbo.se> wrote:

> I'm now running a kernel with this patch and everything seems to still
> be working.
> So unless someone else has something to comment I think this should be
> applied.
> The decrease in call-depth is important.

I would like to see at least one ACK from the netfilter
folks.  Bart or Rusty, could you forward to patch to
netfilter-devel for review?

I have some other ideas about how bridging might be able
to save some call chain depth... but I need to think about
it some more before proposing or even trying to implement.
(basically something akin to how we do route level packet
 output, via dst_output(), but instead we're doing this
 at ->hard_start_xmit() time)