From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, patrick@tykepenguin.com
Subject: Re: [NET 00/06]: Increase number of possible routing tables
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:39:19 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DC2617.7020200@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060810192957.14867.71965.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> These are the updated patches (against net-2.6.19) to increase the number
> of possible routing tables to 2^32. They basically consist of four parts:
>
> - Use u32 for routing table IDs everywhere inside the kernel
Just out of curiocity: why current limit of 2^31 isn't sufficient?
Or am I missing the point?
Thanks.
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-11 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 19:29 [NET 00/06]: Increase number of possible routing tables Patrick McHardy
2006-08-10 19:29 ` [NET 01/06]: Use u32 for routing table IDs Patrick McHardy
2006-08-11 6:08 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 19:30 ` [NET 02/06]: Introduce RTA_TABLE/FRA_TABLE attributes Patrick McHardy
2006-08-11 6:09 ` David Miller
2006-08-11 7:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-08-11 7:33 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 19:30 ` [IPV4 03/06]: Increase number of possible routing tables to 2^32 Patrick McHardy
2006-08-11 6:10 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 19:30 ` [IPV6 04/06]: " Patrick McHardy
2006-08-11 6:11 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 19:30 ` [DECNET 05/06]: " Patrick McHardy
2006-08-11 6:11 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 19:30 ` [NET 06/06]: Increate RT_TABLE_MAX " Patrick McHardy
2006-08-11 6:12 ` David Miller
2006-08-11 6:39 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2006-08-11 6:44 ` [NET 00/06]: Increase number of possible routing tables David Miller
2006-08-11 6:56 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-08-11 9:48 ` Thomas Graf
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