netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 0/2] Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.

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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:20:24 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: thinker.li@...il.com
Cc: dsahern@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, martin.lau@...ux.dev,
 kernel-team@...a.com, yhs@...a.com, sinquersw@...il.com, kuifeng@...a.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 0/2] Remove expired routes with a separated
 list of routes.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:07:04 -0700 thinker.li@...il.com wrote:
> From: Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@...il.com>
> 
> FIB6 GC walks trees of fib6_tables to remove expired routes. Walking a tree
> can be expensive if the number of routes in a table is big, even if most of
> them are permanent. Checking routes in a separated list of routes having
> expiration will avoid this potential issue.

Applied, thank you!