netdev - Re: [stable 2.6.32.y PATCH 0/6] net: fixes for cached dsts are never invalidated

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Message-ID: <20121019210333.GI8315@kvack.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:03:33 -0400
From:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable 2.6.32.y PATCH 0/6] net: fixes for cached dsts are never invalidated

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:53:00PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I see. Then users will have the same issue when upgrading from 2.6.32 to 3.0.
> 
> OK let's bisect the situation :
>   - current 2.6.32 users are facing a routing bug that needs be fixed.
> 
>   - 2.6.34 and onwards do not have this bug but are probably affected by
>     lower performance due to the minimal fix.

Argh, sorry (too many patches in flight), it looks like just cherry picking 
d11a4dc18bf41719c9f0d7ed494d295dd2973b92 is okay.  It does have the 
rt_is_expired() changes, so it should not have much of a performance 
regression.  So going with only this change is probably the way to go 
for now.

		-ben
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