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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:36:51 +0900 From: Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com> To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: ipv6: Add a sysctl to make optimistic addresses useful candidates (resending; sorry for the dup; my text mail setting was defeated)-: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com> wrote: > Hannes, > > Given that we spoke about this reduction in the number of netlink messages > earlier, do you still think it's an issue? > > The end result here is that for listeners on netlink sockets on systems that > (a) have optimistic dad built-in, (b) have optimistic dad enabled, and (c) > have use_optimistic set: they'll 2 notifications (with different flags) for > automatically added addresses on these interfaces. > > (Personally, given that we appear to send an RTM_NEWADDR when the address > gets deprecated (I think), I think sending one on every flag change of > interest is in keeping with existing behaviour.) > > On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 12:15:59 AM Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com> wrote: >> > Add a sysctl that causes an interface's optimistic addresses >> > to be considered equivalent to other non-deprecated addresses >> > for source address selection purposes. Preferred addresses >> > will still take precedence over optimistic addresses, subject >> > to other ranking in the source address selection algorithm. >> > ... >> > Signed-off-by: Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com> >> >> Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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