netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix routing metrics

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Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:13:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Cc:	timo.teras@....fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix routing metrics

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:08:38 +0100

> Actually the whole tree is invalid in such cases. So instead of
> replacing each single entry of the tree, we could just replace
> the old tree with a fresh initialized inet_peer_base. The old
> tree could be removed later with a delayed work queue.
> 
> When rt_cache_invalidate() is invoked, all we have to do is to
> replace the root node with a peer_fake_node and to add the old root
> node to a garbage collecting list. The old tree will be destroyed
> with a work queue later.
> 
> We would not even need a genid and we could also get rid of the
> redirect_genid handling.

It sounds like a great idea.
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