netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:25:40 +0200
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after
 encountering pmtu exception

Am 23.05.2015 um 05:55 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau:

> This series is to avoid creating a RTF_CACHE route whenever we are consulting
> the fib6 tree with a new destination.  Instead, only create RTF_CACHE route
> when we see a pmtu exception.

That even helps on systems without an IPv6-connection to world because 
it avoids the IPv6 route add/delete pairs which happened before whenever 
an IPv6-connection was tried (e.g. by Happy Eyeballs algorithms).

I think that's worse a laud. thanks.

Alexander Holler

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