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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: greearb@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2] iproute2:  Allow 'ip addr flush' to loop more than 10 times.
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:13:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C59D80E.3020804@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100804140012.577b2195@nehalam>

On 08/04/2010 02:00 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:55:59 -0700
> greearb@gmail•com wrote:
>
>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech•com>
>>
>> The default remains at 10 for backwards compatibility.
>>
>> For instance:
>>   # ip addr flush dev eth2
>>   *** Flush remains incomplete after 10 rounds. ***
>>   # ip -l 20 addr flush dev eth2
>>   *** Flush remains incomplete after 20 rounds. ***
>>   # ip -loops 0 addr flush dev eth2
>>   #
>>
>> This is useful for getting rid of large numbers of IP
>> addresses in scripts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech•com>
>
> The current userspace driven flush behavior is crap.
> There really should be an atomic flush netlink message
> with kernel support.

No argument from me, but I've no time to figure out how
to do that properly.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29  5:55 [iproute2] iproute2: Allow 'ip addr flush' to loop more than 10 times greearb
2010-06-29  6:12 ` David Miller
2010-06-29  6:27   ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29  6:36     ` David Miller
2010-06-29  9:58       ` Andreas Henriksson
2010-06-29 14:59         ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 15:10       ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 17:02         ` David Miller
2010-06-29  8:03 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-06-29 15:04   ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 15:48     ` Alexander Clouter
2010-06-29 16:30       ` Ben Greear
2010-08-04 21:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-04 21:13   ` Ben Greear [this message]

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