netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next V2] net: split rt

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:04:37 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jmorris@...ei.org,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next V2] net: split rt_genid for ipv4 and ipv6

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:37:00AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> Current net name space has only one genid for both IPv4 and IPv6, it has below drawbacks:
> 
> - Add/delete an IPv4 address will invalidate all IPv6 routing table entries.
> - Insert/remove XFRM policy will also invalidate both IPv4/IPv6 routing table entries
>   even when the policy is only applied for one address family.
> 
> Thus, this patch attempt to split one genid for two to cater for IPv4 and IPv6 separately
> in a fine granularity.

For me the approach seems reasonable. We should double-check if this
does not affect v4mapped af_inet6 sockets in any way. I could help to
do the review if there is an agreement that the split is desirable.

Thanks,

  Hannes

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