netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove fib

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Message-ID: <20110201152603.3ce5bd26@nehalam>
Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:26:03 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove fib_hash.

On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:19:41 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> 
> The time has finally come to remove the hash based routing table
> implementation in ipv4.
> 
> FIB Trie is mature, well tested, and I've done an audit of it's code
> to confirm that it implements insert, delete, and lookup with the same
> identical semantics as fib_hash did.
> 
> If there are any semantic differences found in fib_trie, we should
> simply fix them.
> 
> I've placed the trie statistic config option under advanced router
> configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Vyatta has been shipping FIB TRIE for over 3 years with reported
bugs.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

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