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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roland@purestorage.com,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch net-next] ipv6: look up neighbours on demand in ip6_finish_output2()
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:28:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F4BEB2.2050201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130114.133004.19237632940616685.davem@davemloft.net>

On 01/15/2013 02:30 AM, David Miller wrote:
>
> This is a very incomplete patch.
>
> If this change were so simple, it would have been done by someone
> else a long time ago.
>
> You must, in addition to the incredibly obvious changes in the packet
> output path, completely eliminate the caching of the neighbour entry
> in the ipv6 routes themselves.
>
> This means replacing every rt6->n access or test with something
> equivalent.
>

THanks, David and Eric!

I knew this is probably incomplete, that is why I added "RFC". 
Fortunately, YOSHIFUJI just sent a more complete patch:

[RFC net-next] ipv6 route: Do not attach neighbour on route.

So, please ignore mine and use his. :)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-15  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 13:35 [RFC Patch net-next] ipv6: look up neighbours on demand in ip6_finish_output2() Cong Wang
2013-01-14 16:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-14 18:30 ` David Miller
2013-01-15  2:28   ` Cong Wang [this message]
2013-01-15 12:22     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

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