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Message-Id: <1420574648-24213-1-git-send-email-ani@arista.com>
Date:	Tue,  6 Jan 2015 12:04:08 -0800
From:	Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
To:	corbet@....net, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ani@...sta.com, P@...igbrady.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation 

Update documentation to reflect the fact that
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for
ipv4.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9bffdfc..c8a7e37 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
 	Default: 0
 
 route/max_size - INTEGER
-	Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
-	this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
+        Post linux kernel 3.6, this is depricated for ipv4 as route cache is no
+        longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6
+        routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase this when using large numbers of
+        interfaces and/or routes.
 
 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
 	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
-- 
1.7.4.4

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