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

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Message-ID: <20121019212245.GL17417@1wt.eu>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:22:45 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
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 05:03:33PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 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.

Perfect then! I'm queuing it.

Thanks very much for your work !
Willy

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