netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] ipmr, ip6mr: return lastuse relative to now

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Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:58:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        sashok@...ulusnetworks.com, David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ipmr, ip6mr: return lastuse relative to now

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:17:22 +0200

> When I introduced the lastuse member I made a subtle error because it was
> returned as an absolute value but that is meaningless to user-space as it
> doesn't allow to see how old exactly an entry is. Let's make it similar to
> how the bridge returns such values and make it relative to "now" (jiffies).
> This allows us to show the actual age of the entries and is much more
> useful (e.g. user-space daemons can age out entries, iproute2 can display
> the lastuse properly).
> 
> Fixes: 43b9e1274060 ("net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age")
> Reported-by: Satish Ashok <sashok@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> ---
> v2: make sure lastuse is before or equal to jiffies as per David Laight's
> comment

Applied.