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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:45:59 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fib_trie: rescan if key is lost during dump

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:51:12 -0800

> Normally during a dump the key of the last dumped entry is used for
> continuation, but since lock is dropped it might be lost. In that case
> fallback to the old counter based N^2 behaviour.  This means the dump will end up
> skipping some routes which matches what FIB_HASH does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks.
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