linux-kernel - Re: hard-coded limit on unresolved multicast route cache in ipv4/ipmr.c causes slow, unreliable creation of multicast routes on busy networks

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Message-Id: <20181218.215545.1657190540227341803.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:55:45 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sukumarg1973@...il.com
Cc:     liuhangbin@...il.com, karn@...q.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hard-coded limit on unresolved multicast route cache in
 ipv4/ipmr.c causes slow, unreliable creation of multicast routes on busy
 networks

From: Sukumar Gopalakrishnan <sukumarg1973@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:57:02 +0530

> Hi David,
> 
>   There are two patch for this issue:
>    1) Your changes which removes cache_resolve_queue_len
>     2) Hangbin's changes which make cache_resolve_queue_len configurable.
> 
> Which one will be chosen for this issue ?

I do plan to look into this, sorry for taking so long.

Right now I am overwhelmed preparing for the next merge window and
synchronizing with other developers for that.

Please be patient.