From: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: ipv6 hitting route max_size
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:15:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110606231521.GB22559@hostway.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110606.150142.2071869702137894615.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:01:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:37:27 -0700
>
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/route/max_size and a number of similar GC knobs exist,
> > but max_size seems to limit the size of the v6 route table, not the v6
> > route cache.
>
> There is no v6 route cache.
>
> Instead of a routing cache, ipv6 route lookups "clone" new routes into
> the same datastructre the route table is stored in.
Ok, makes sense, but the result is now that ipv4 loads a full Internet
table with no adjustments, while ipv6 does not. Would it make sense to
change 4096 to 1048576, or would it be better to count only clones of
the actual route or something along those lines?
Simon-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-06 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-06 21:37 ipv6 hitting route max_size Simon Kirby
2011-06-06 22:01 ` David Miller
2011-06-06 23:15 ` Simon Kirby [this message]
2011-06-06 23:28 ` David Miller
2011-06-07 7:56 ` David Miller
2011-06-09 4:40 ` Simon Kirby
2011-06-24 21:35 ` David Miller
2011-06-24 21:57 ` David Miller
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