From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove fib_hash. Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:26:03 -0800 Message-ID: <20110201152603.3ce5bd26@nehalam> References: <20110201.151941.48509941.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:46054 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751789Ab1BAX0G (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:26:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110201.151941.48509941.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:19:41 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote: > > The time has finally come to remove the hash based routing table > implementation in ipv4. > > FIB Trie is mature, well tested, and I've done an audit of it's code > to confirm that it implements insert, delete, and lookup with the same > identical semantics as fib_hash did. > > If there are any semantic differences found in fib_trie, we should > simply fix them. > > I've placed the trie statistic config option under advanced router > configuration. > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Vyatta has been shipping FIB TRIE for over 3 years with reported bugs. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger --