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On 5/8/15 8:57 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> I guess an ingress action can do better, by stealing the packet before
> hitting this point.

unfortunately not yet :(
We have spin_lock(&gact->tcf_lock); in tcf_gact,
so simple 'action drop' doesn't scale.
Shouldn't be hard to fix though.