From: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, dsahern@kernel.org,
martin.lau@kernel.org, joel@joelfernandes.org,
paulmck@kernel.org, eyal.birger@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it, Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Subject: [net-next v3] ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is depreciated
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:40:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230119224049.1187142-1-jmaxwell37@gmail.com> (raw)
v3: Change kernel version from 6.2 to 6.3. Add "commit" in front of hash.
Document that max_size is depreciated due to:
commit af6d10345ca7 ("ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4")
Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 7fbd060d6047..4cc2fab58dea 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ route/max_size - INTEGER
From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
as route cache is no longer used.
+ From linux kernel 6.3 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv6
+ as garbage collection manages cached route entries.
+
neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
--
2.31.1
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