Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 2/3] bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is received

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:17:37 +0800

On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 15:26 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
> 
> Currently we arm the expire timer when the mdb entry is added,
> however, this causes problem when there is no querier sent
> out after that.
> 
> So we should only arm the timer when a corresponding query is
> received, as suggested by Herbert.

One problem with this solution is that the temp mdb entry will no longer
be expired automatically any more, since no query no timer.

I am wondering if we should find other way to fix it, for example,
touching the timer as long as there is multicast traffic (non-IGMP).

Thanks!