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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded•com>
To: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail•com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, bridge@lists•linux-foundation.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	buytenh@wantstofly•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bridge: fix message_age_timer calculation
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:40:59 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5230B93B.3040900@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378745768-4495-1-git-send-email-cphealy@gmail.com>

Hello.

On 09/09/2013 08:56 PM, Chris Healy wrote:

> This changes the message_age_timer calculation to use the BPDU's max age as opposed to the local bridge's max age.  This is in accordance with section 8.6.2.3.2 Step 2 of the 802.1D-1998 sprecification.

    You should wrap your changelog lines at 80 chars at most, preferably less.

> With the current implementation, when running with very large bridge diameters, convergance will not always occur even if a root bridge is configured to have a longer max age.

> Tested successfully on bridge diameters of ~200.

> Signed-off-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail•com>

WBR, Sergei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-09 16:56 [PATCH 1/1] bridge: fix message_age_timer calculation Chris Healy
2013-09-10 18:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-11 18:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2013-09-11 20:48   ` David Miller

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