From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: [NET 00/06]: Increase number of possible routing tables Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:39:19 +0400 Message-ID: <44DC2617.7020200@tls.msk.ru> References: <20060810192957.14867.71965.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, patrick@tykepenguin.com Return-path: Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:31312 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932195AbWHKGj0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:39:26 -0400 To: Patrick McHardy In-Reply-To: <20060810192957.14867.71965.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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