netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: Add a second bind table hashed by port and address"

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:28:49 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: Add a second bind table hashed by port
 and address"

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 7:18 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:01:36 +0200 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > > Do we really need to remove the test ? It is a benchmark, and should
> > > not 'fail' on old kernels.
> >
> > I agree it's nice to keep the self-test alive.
> >
> > Side notes, not strictly related to the revert: the self test is not
> > currently executed by `make run_tests` and requires some additional
> > setup: ulimit -n <high number>, 2001:db8:0:f101::1 being a locally
> > available address, and a mandatory command line argument.
> >
> > @Joanne: you should additionally provide a wrapper script to handle the
> > above and update TEST_PROGS accordingly. As for this revert, could you
> > please re-post it touching the kernel code only?
>
> Let me take the revert in for today's PR. Hope that's okay. We can
> revive the test in -next with the wrapper/setup issue addressed.
> I don't want more people to waste time bisecting the warnings this
> generates.

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