netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16]: Kill the ipv4 routing cache.

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:43:54 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16]: Kill the ipv4 routing cache.

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 09:26 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:09:29 +0100
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 14:34 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >> The ipv4 routing cache is non-deterministic, performance wise, and is
> >> subject to reasonably easy to launch denial of service attacks.
> > [...]
> > 
> > This is a great explanation, but it still doesn't appear to be going
> > into the commit log...
> 
> What in the world do you mean?
> 
> When I actually commit this stuff, I'll have it all in a branch and
> merge it into net-next's master using "git merge --no-ff" and then use
> the merge commit to add this commit message test.

I am not familiar with this "git merge --no-ff", so the following
might be completely irrelevant :

It would be nice if you can copy the changelog of 00/16 to 01/16

01/16 has no changelog, and it probably can confuse git users in the
future, since this patch is not trivial.

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