Subject: Re: [iproute2] iproute2: Allow 'ip addr flush' to loop more than 10 times.

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:13:50 -0700

On 08/04/2010 02:00 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:55:59 -0700
> [email-masked] wrote:
>
>> From: Ben Greear<[email-masked]>
>>
>> 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<[email-masked]>
>
> 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

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Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
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