From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andreas.meissner@indakom.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4: unresolved multicast route cleanup
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 04:48:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100510.044800.163238362.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE7CD4D.6050704@indakom.de>
From: Andreas Meissner <andreas.meissner@indakom.de>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:09:33 +0200
> from: Andreas Meissner <andreas.meissner@sphairon.com>
>
> Fixes the expiration timer for unresolved multicast route entries.
> In case new multicast routing requests come in faster than the
> expiration timeout occurs (e.g. zap through multicast TV streams), the
> timer is prevented from being called at time for already existing entries.
>
> Signed-off by: Andreas Meissner <andreas.meissner@sphairon.com>
> ---
> As the single timer is resetted to default whenever a new entry is made,
> the timeout for existing unresolved entires are missed and/or not
> updated. As a consequence new requests are denied when the limit of
> unresolved entries has been reached because old entries live longer than
> they are supposed to.
> The solution is to reset the timer only for the first unresolved entry
> in the multicast routing cache. All other timers are already set and
> updated correctly within the timer function itself by now.
Looks great, applied thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-10 9:09 [PATCH] IPv4: unresolved multicast route cleanup Andreas Meissner
2010-05-10 11:48 ` David Miller [this message]
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2010-05-03 9:47 Andreas Meißner
2010-05-03 22:41 ` David Miller
2010-05-10 8:40 ` Andreas Meissner
2010-05-10 9:04 ` David Miller
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