netdev - Re: [PATCH] route: Fix caught BUG_ON during rt_secret_rebuild

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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:27:08 +0300
From:	Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@...nvz.org>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] route: Fix caught BUG_ON during rt_secret_rebuild_oneshot()

On Tuesday 16 March 2010 05:34:37 pm Neil Horman wrote:
...
> Yeah, this seems reasonable.  Although this might be a good time to bring up the
> subject of deprecating or removing the secret interval.  We've had our
> statistical analysis bits in place to drive the rebuilding of the cache in the
> event that any one chain gets too long, and in the year or so that we've had it,
> it seems we've shaken out a few bugs with it (which suggests that people are
> using it routinely).  As such, might it be time to just drop the rebuild timer
> in its entirety?

Rebuild timer was introduced by secure reason when there was no analysis for
chain lenght. Now it seems that rebuild timer can be removed.


> 
> Until that decision is made of course, the above seems like a sane fix for it.
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> 
> 



Thanks,
Vitaliy Gusev
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