From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Does the ordering of the fib_table_dump or /proc/net/fib_trie matter? Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:58:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20150106.165822.1294578064447416624.davem@davemloft.net> References: <54AC45CE.80800@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: alexander.duyck@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:55995 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753336AbbAFV60 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:58:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <54AC45CE.80800@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Alexander Duyck Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:30:06 -0800 > The question I have is if that would screw up any user-space apps. I > know ip route can dump the list via "ip route show". I'm just wondering > if there would be any problem with default being the last entry instead > of the first entry? The ordering already changed once when we went from fib_hash to fib_trie, nobody should depend upon the ordering.