netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] rocker: set FDB cleanup timer according to lowest ageing time

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:31:15 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rocker: set FDB cleanup timer according to lowest
 ageing time

Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:59:34PM CET, stephen@...workplumber.org wrote:
>From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
>
>In rocker, ageing time is a per-port attribute, so the next time the FDB
>cleanup timer fires should be set according to the lowest ageing time.
>
>This will later allow us to delete the BR_MIN_AGEING_TIME macro, which was
>added to guarantee minimum ageing time in the bridge layer, thereby breaking
>existing behavior.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>