netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16]: Kill the ipv4 routing cache.

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Message-ID: <1342796969.2678.12.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:09:29 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16]: Kill the ipv4 routing cache.

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 14:34 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> The ipv4 routing cache is non-deterministic, performance wise, and is
> subject to reasonably easy to launch denial of service attacks.
[...]

This is a great explanation, but it still doesn't appear to be going
into the commit log...

Ben.

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