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

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:18:03 -0700

> I did some digging into the annotation for ip_route_intput_noref and
> it seems like the issue is that I am hitting the dst_hold call in
> __mkroute_input.

We shouldn't be building any routes in __mkroute_input except for the
very first packet, we should be instead using the cached route in the
FIB info nexthop.

Something's not right.
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