netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 5/5] ipv4: Trigger check

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Message-ID: <CANn89iLhKGoRgxQPm66NfMSWmjQg+Df1oUt9xt5wQnLOxXAWpQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 11:27:18 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 5/5] ipv4: Trigger check_lifetime() only when necessary.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 4:51 AM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:
>
> DHCP is unlikely to be used in non-root network namespaces, and GC is
> unnecessary in such cases.
>
> Let's count the number of non-permanent IPv4 addresses and schedule GC
> only when the count is not zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

I find this a bit distracting honestly.

Lets focus on RTNL first, there are already a lot of reviews.