From: Narcisa Vasile <narcisav.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Alice Mikityanska <alice.kernel@fastmail.im>,
Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: net: big_tcp_tunnels: Fix the IPv6 route change
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 21:43:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ascfeQ+F7fBsU2cY@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007014731.1277055-1-yanhaishuang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 09:47:31AM +0800, Haishuang Yan wrote:
> On slow machines, do_test() raises initcwnd on the route into the tunnel
> with "ip route change". For IPv6 traffic this fails with:
>
> RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
>
> The IPv6 prefix route of the tunnel address has metric 256, while
> "ip -6 route change" without a metric looks for a route with the default
> metric 1024, so nothing is changed. The test still passes, but without
> the larger initcwnd it is meant to use.
>
> Pass the metric of the prefix route.
>
> Fixes: 1d62b83fb751 ("selftests: net: Fix slow configurations in big_tcp_tunnels.sh")
> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/net/big_tcp_tunnels.sh | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Narcisa Vasile <narcisav.kernel@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-08 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 1:47 [PATCH net] selftests: net: big_tcp_tunnels: Fix the IPv6 route change Haishuang Yan
2026-10-08 4:43 ` Narcisa Vasile [this message]
2026-10-08 18:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-10-09 10:59 ` Alice Mikityanska
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