From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tgraf@suug.ch
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070327.135707.32346804.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327133845.GM521@postel.suug.ch>
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:38:45 +0200
> The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
> except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
> responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
> rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
> of this concept.
>
> This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
> or deleting a rule.
>
> Thanks to Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> for catching a bug
> in the previous patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 13:38 [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications Thomas Graf
2007-03-27 20:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-28 11:19 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-03-28 15:49 ` Thomas Graf
2007-03-28 18:24 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 19:34 ` Thomas Graf
2007-03-28 19:40 ` David Miller
2007-03-29 10:03 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-03-29 10:15 ` Jarek Poplawski
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