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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:07:02 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jmorris@...ei.org,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, paul@...l-moore.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: split rt_genid for ipv4 and ipv6

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:33:53AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> Current net name space has only one genid for both IPv4 and IPv6, it has below
> drawbacks:
> 
> - Add/delete an IPv4 address will invalidate all IPv6 routing table entries.
> - Insert/remove XFRM policy will also invalidate both IPv4/IPv6 routing table
>   entries even when the policy is only applied for one address family.
> 
> Thus, this patch attempt to split one genid for two to cater for IPv4 and IPv6
> separately in a fine granularity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>

Also this patch only applies with some fuzz, it addressed all my issues:

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Thanks,

  Hannes

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