netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Mitigate the Issue of Expired Routes in Linux IPv6 Routing Tables

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Message-ID: <5b949924-65bb-9b6d-0e7f-252c12476849@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 20:35:02 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Kui-Feng Lee <sinquersw@...il.com>, Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@...il.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, martin.lau@...ux.dev,
 kernel-team@...a.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@...a.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Mitigate the Issue of Expired Routes
 in Linux IPv6 Routing Tables

On 5/18/23 12:51 PM, Kui-Feng Lee wrote:
> This is one of solutions I considered at beginning.
> With this approach, we can have a maximum
> number of entries like what neighbor tables do.
> Remove entries only if the list reach the maximum without running
> a GC timer.  However, it can be very inefficient to insert a new entry
> ordered. Stephen mentioned 3 million routes on backbone router
> in another message.  We may need something more complicated
> like RB-tree or HEAP to reduce the overhead.

I do not believe so. Not every route will have an expiration timer. Only
those are added to the new, time ordered list_head.

And you can not cap the number of entries in a FIB.