Re: [PATCH v5] kernel/signal: Signal-based pre-coredump notification

[Enke Chen]

Hi, Oleg:

On 10/30/18 9:46 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/29, Enke Chen wrote:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hmm. I didn't say this ;)
> 
> But OK, feel free to keep this tag.

Thanks.

> 
> I do not like this feauture. But I see no technical problems in this version
> and I never pretented I understand the user-space needs, so I won't argue.

As I explained earlier, the primary application is in the area of network
high-availability / non-stop-forwarding where early fault notification and
early action can help maintain BFD sessions and thus avoid unnecessary
disruption to forwarding while the control-plane is recovering.

-- Enke