netdev - Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, muli@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule
 modifications

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:38:45 +0200

> The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
> except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
> responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
> rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
> of this concept.
> 
> This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
> or deleting a rule.
> 
> Thanks to Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com> for catching a bug
> in the previous patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

Applied, thanks.
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