netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove fib

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Message-Id: <20110201.153504.260089860.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:35:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove fib_hash.

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:33:32 -0800

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:26:03 -0800
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> NO reported bugs!!

Understood. :-)

Thanks for reviewing Stephen.
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