netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: don't age NTF_EXT

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Message-Id: <20170328.175729.1177873512181660790.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: don't age NTF_EXT_LEARNED fdb entries

From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:46:41 -0700

> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> vxlan driver already implicitly supports installing
> of external fdb entries with NTF_EXT_LEARNED. This
> patch just makes sure these entries are not aged
> by the vxlan driver. An external entity managing these
> entries will age them out. This is consistent with
> the use of NTF_EXT_LEARNED in the bridge driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied, thank you.