From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:19:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20070328111921.GA2703@ff.dom.local> References: <20070327133845.GM521@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com To: Thomas Graf Return-path: Received: from poczta.o2.pl ([193.17.41.142]:48193 "EHLO poczta.o2.pl" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934253AbXC1LOg (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:14:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070327133845.GM521@postel.suug.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 27-03-2007 14:38, Thomas Graf wrote: > 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. I hope I'm wrong, but isn't this at the cost of admins working with long rules' sets, which (probably) take extra time now? Regards, Jarek P.