From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] arp: Really delete an arp entry on "arp -d"
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 11:22:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170531152203.GB9362@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de8d048e-a276-c596-6b98-c9e7c4b91270@gmail.com>
On (05/30/17 18:42), David Ahern wrote:
> It has been noticed. I have not sent a patch since adjusting gc
> parameters will reclaim FAILED entries at whatever rate the user wants.
Overly aggressive garbage collection will delete other (non-FAILED)
entries as well, and can trigger needless re-ARP (or re-ND), whereas
the admin may just want to lose some selective static arp/NCE entries.
--Sowmini
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-31 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-30 3:48 [PATCH RFC net-next] arp: Really delete an arp entry on "arp -d" Sowmini Varadhan
2017-05-30 23:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-30 23:32 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-05-31 0:42 ` David Ahern
2017-05-31 15:22 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
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