Re: [RFC] Exempt multicast address from five-second neighbor lifetime

2020-10-19 Thread Jeff Dike
Hi Jesse, > Your subject should indicate net or net-next as the tree, please see: I was intending more to see if this is an intrinsically bad idea than for it to go directly into a tree right now. > Not sure how many patches you've submitted, but your commit message > should be wrapped at 68 or

Re: [RFC] Exempt multicast address from five-second neighbor lifetime

2020-10-16 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
Hi Jeff, Jeff Dike wrote: Your subject should indicate net or net-next as the tree, please see: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/netdev-FAQ.html > Commit 58956317c8de guarantees arp table entries a five-second lifetime. We > have some apps which make heavy use of multicast,

[RFC] Exempt multicast address from five-second neighbor lifetime

2020-10-16 Thread Jeff Dike
Commit 58956317c8de guarantees arp table entries a five-second lifetime. We have some apps which make heavy use of multicast, and these can cause the table to overflow by filling it with multicast addresses which can't be GC-ed until their five seconds are up. This patch allows multicast addres