From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Properly purge netdev references on uncached routes.
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:44:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731154455.2acf97a8@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731.152033.1148018322961121079.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> When a device is unregistered, we have to purge all of the
> references to it that may exist in the entire system.
>
> If a route is uncached, we currently have no way of accomplishing
> this.
>
> So create a global list that is scanned when a network device goes
> down. This mirrors the logic in net/core/dst.c's dst_ifdown().
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
What about systems will full 1M route table?
I wonder if doing rbtree here would make the search faster?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-31 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-31 22:20 [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Properly purge netdev references on uncached routes David Miller
2012-07-31 22:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-07-31 23:04 ` David Miller
2012-08-24 15:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-24 15:45 ` David Miller
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2012-07-31 1:23 David Miller
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