From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16]: Kill the ipv4 routing cache. Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:09:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1342796969.2678.12.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <20120719.143403.1702333347618917729.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:47398 "EHLO ocex02.SolarFlarecom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751144Ab2GTPJc (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:09:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120719.143403.1702333347618917729.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 14:34 -0700, David Miller wrote: > The ipv4 routing cache is non-deterministic, performance wise, and is > subject to reasonably easy to launch denial of service attacks. [...] This is a great explanation, but it still doesn't appear to be going into the commit log... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.