netdev - Re: [PATCH net V4] Exempt multicast addresses from five-second neighbor lifetime

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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:10:05 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Jeff Dike <jdike@...mai.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V4] Exempt multicast addresses from five-second neighbor
 lifetime

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:58:15 -0500 you wrote:
> Commit 58956317c8de ("neighbor: Improve garbage collection")
> guarantees neighbour table entries a five-second lifetime.  Processes
> which make heavy use of multicast can fill the neighour table with
> multicast addresses in five seconds.  At that point, neighbour entries
> can't be GC-ed because they aren't five seconds old yet, the kernel
> log starts to fill up with "neighbor table overflow!" messages, and
> sends start to fail.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,V4] Exempt multicast addresses from five-second neighbor lifetime
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/8cf8821e15cd

You are awesome, thank you!
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