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Message-Id: <20100510.044800.163238362.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 04:48:00 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: andreas.meissner@...akom.de Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv4: unresolved multicast route cleanup From: Andreas Meissner <andreas.meissner@...akom.de> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:09:33 +0200 > from: Andreas Meissner <andreas.meissner@...airon.com> > > Fixes the expiration timer for unresolved multicast route entries. > In case new multicast routing requests come in faster than the > expiration timeout occurs (e.g. zap through multicast TV streams), the > timer is prevented from being called at time for already existing entries. > > Signed-off by: Andreas Meissner <andreas.meissner@...airon.com> > --- > As the single timer is resetted to default whenever a new entry is made, > the timeout for existing unresolved entires are missed and/or not > updated. As a consequence new requests are denied when the limit of > unresolved entries has been reached because old entries live longer than > they are supposed to. > The solution is to reset the timer only for the first unresolved entry > in the multicast routing cache. All other timers are already set and > updated correctly within the timer function itself by now. Looks great, applied thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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