From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 2/3] bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is received
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:17:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367291857.3216.2.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367220392-17496-2-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 15:26 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
>
> Currently we arm the expire timer when the mdb entry is added,
> however, this causes problem when there is no querier sent
> out after that.
>
> So we should only arm the timer when a corresponding query is
> received, as suggested by Herbert.
One problem with this solution is that the temp mdb entry will no longer
be expired automatically any more, since no query no timer.
I am wondering if we should find other way to fix it, for example,
touching the timer as long as there is multicast traffic (non-IGMP).
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-30 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-29 7:26 [Patch net-next 1/3] bridge: use the bridge IP addr as source addr of querier Cong Wang
2013-04-29 7:26 ` [Patch net-next 2/3] bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is received Cong Wang
2013-04-30 3:17 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2013-04-30 3:22 ` Herbert Xu
2013-04-30 3:32 ` Cong Wang
2013-04-29 7:26 ` [Patch net-next 3/3] bridge: send query as soon as leave " Cong Wang
2013-04-29 7:43 ` Herbert Xu
2013-04-29 8:15 ` Cong Wang
2013-04-29 7:43 ` [Patch net-next 1/3] bridge: use the bridge IP addr as source addr of querier Herbert Xu
2013-04-29 8:17 ` Cong Wang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1367291857.3216.2.camel@cr0 \
--to=amwang@redhat.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au \
--cc=linux@baker-net.org.uk \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=stephen@networkplumber.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).