Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age

2016-07-16 Thread David Miller
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:28:27 +0300 > In preparation for hardware offloading of ipmr/ip6mr we need an > interface that allows to check (and later update) the age of entries. > Relying on stats alone can show activity but not actual age of the entry, > furthermore when

Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age

2016-07-15 Thread David Miller
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 23:11:15 -0700 > Sorry about that, would you like me to resubmit the patch ? That's not necessary.

Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age

2016-07-15 Thread Nikolay Aleksandrov
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:56 PM, David Miller wrote: > > From: Nikolay Aleksandrov > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:28:27 +0300 > >> In preparation for hardware offloading of ipmr/ip6mr we need an >> interface that allows to check (and later update) the age of entries. >> Relying on stats alone can

Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age

2016-07-15 Thread David Miller
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:28:27 +0300 > In preparation for hardware offloading of ipmr/ip6mr we need an > interface that allows to check (and later update) the age of entries. > Relying on stats alone can show activity but not actual age of the entry, > furthermore when

[PATCH net-next v2] net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age

2016-07-15 Thread Nikolay Aleksandrov
In preparation for hardware offloading of ipmr/ip6mr we need an interface that allows to check (and later update) the age of entries. Relying on stats alone can show activity but not actual age of the entry, furthermore when there're tens of thousands of entries a lot of the hardware implementation