netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove unnecessary code from rt_check

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Message-ID: <1340700408.10893.275.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:46:48 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Remove unnecessary code from rt_check_expire().

On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 01:37 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> And think, we don't do any stupidity like this for the inetpeer cache
> and no small cute animals have died as a result.

Thats because inetpeer is kept small.

We do have a smart gc on inetpeer cache (inet_peer_gc()),
and inetpeer threshold is 65536 

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