netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Fix ipv6 round-robin locking

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Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix ipv6 round-robin locking

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:40:30 +0100

> Seondly, I'm not sure I've fully understood why this round robin mechanism
> is needed to ensure as many routers as possible are probed as soon as
> possible.
 ...
> I'm just making sure we know what we're doing :-)

Ignore rt6_probe(), pretend that it's disabled.

It's the neigh probe that occurs when we _return_ and
_use_ the route for something that elicits the probe
we are interested in.
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