netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC] ipv6: fib: Drop cached routes with dead neighbours on fib GC

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Message-Id: <20130111.155038.1606083912179468348.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:50:38 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roland@...nel.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ipv6: fib: Drop cached routes with dead neighbours
 on fib GC

From: Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:13:42 -0800

> In the meantime does it make sense to put a smaller bandaid in 3.8?

I want it fixed properly from the start, sorry.

> I'm pretty sure this is a regression (we never saw it with older
> kernels), probably due to some part of the route cache improvements
> you've been doing.

I do not believe this is the situation at all.
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