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From: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ani@arista.com, P@draigbrady.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	fruggeri@arista.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation
Date: Tue,  6 Jan 2015 15:36:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420587382-24612-1-git-send-email-ani@arista.com> (raw)

Update documentation to reflect the fact that
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for ipv4.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9bffdfc..2a28261 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
 	Default: 0
 
 route/max_size - INTEGER
-	Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
-	this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
+	Post linux kernel 3.6, this is deprecated for ipv4 as route cache is no
+	longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6
+	routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase this when using large numbers of
+	interfaces and/or routes.
 
 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
 	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
-- 
1.7.4.4


             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-06 23:36 Ani Sinha [this message]
2015-01-07 10:11 ` [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation David Laight
2015-01-07 23:46   ` Ani Sinha
     [not found] <1420574648-24213-1-git-send-email-ani@arista.com>
2015-01-06 22:02 ` Fwd: " Ani Sinha
2015-01-06 22:31   ` David Miller
2015-01-06 22:34     ` Ani Sinha
2015-01-06 23:48   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-01-06 23:50     ` Ani Sinha
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-06 22:33 Ani Sinha
2015-01-06 22:40 ` David Miller
2015-01-07  2:08   ` Ani Sinha

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