From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Blake <slblake@petri-meat.com>,
Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Move fib_alias out of fib_hash.c
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:09:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929220926.GE26714@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040929142750.27b35952.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:27:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:20:43 -0400
> Steven Blake <slblake@petri-meat.com> wrote:
>
> > > It can also
> > > be the case that the longest matching prefix entry has no matching
> > > TOS key, whereas a shorter prefix does.
> >
> > No routing protocols are distributing TOS-specific routes, and there is
> > no prospect of that feature ever coming back. Why pay the cost of
> > matching TOS on every packet forwarded?
>
> Because once we add functionality to the kernel we can't simply
> rip it out. People do use TOS routing, via static routes or
> similar.
I'm not so sure anybody uses it really. How about adding a printk for it
and seeing if anybody complains?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 4:47 Move fib_alias out of fib_hash.c David S. Miller
2004-09-29 15:20 ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-29 19:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 21:20 ` Steven Blake
2004-09-29 21:27 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 22:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-29 22:24 ` Ben Greear
2004-09-30 8:08 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-30 15:51 ` Ben Greear
2004-09-29 21:43 ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-29 21:30 ` Robert Olsson
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