netdev - Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation

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Message-ID: <CAOxq_8OGx9VgSaEimAbNZSWjihNqNBXoVg0m8EPRaNX5jLXZiw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2015 14:02:29 -0800
From:	Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
To:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation

+netdev


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:04 PM
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation
To: corbet@....net, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
ani@...sta.com, P@...igbrady.com


Update documentation to reflect the fact that
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for
ipv4.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9bffdfc..c8a7e37 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
        Default: 0

 route/max_size - INTEGER
-       Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
-       this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
+        Post linux kernel 3.6, this is depricated for ipv4 as route cache is no
+        longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6
+        routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase this when using large
numbers of
+        interfaces and/or routes.

 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
        Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
--
1.7.4.4
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