netdev - Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications

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Message-ID: <20070328111921.GA2703@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:19:21 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, muli@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications

On 27-03-2007 14:38, Thomas Graf wrote:
> The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
> except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
> responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
> rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
> of this concept.
> 
> This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
> or deleting a rule.

I hope I'm wrong, but isn't this at the cost of admins
working with long rules' sets, which (probably) take extra
time now?

Regards,
Jarek P. 
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