From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: split rt_genid for ipv4 and ipv6 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130731.145710.1507535169314670977.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1375144433-731-1-git-send-email-fan.du@windriver.com> <20130730070702.GG2490@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fan.du@windriver.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jmorris@namei.org, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, paul@paul-moore.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: hannes@stressinduktion.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:33621 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753732Ab3GaV5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:57:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130730070702.GG2490@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:07:02 +0200 > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:33:53AM +0800, Fan Du wrote: >> Current net name space has only one genid for both IPv4 and IPv6, it has below >> drawbacks: >> >> - Add/delete an IPv4 address will invalidate all IPv6 routing table entries. >> - Insert/remove XFRM policy will also invalidate both IPv4/IPv6 routing table >> entries even when the policy is only applied for one address family. >> >> Thus, this patch attempt to split one genid for two to cater for IPv4 and IPv6 >> separately in a fine granularity. >> >> Signed-off-by: Fan Du > > Also this patch only applies with some fuzz, it addressed all my issues: > > Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Applied, thanks.