From: yzhu1 <Yanjun.Zhu@windriver•com>
To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com>,
<lizefan@huawei•com>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
<ulf.samuelsson@ericsson•com>, <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>,
<Alexandre.Dietsch@windriver•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for kernel 3.4.x 0/1] net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of multicast resolicitations in PROBE state
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:24:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55121C5F.4050202@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55114543.2080709@miraclelinux.com>
On 03/24/2015 07:06 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Zhu Yanjun wrote:
>> This patch is for the kernel 4.0. But kernel 3.4 needs this patch, too. So this patch is backported.
>> There are the following modifications:
>> 1. Because the mothod to set sysctl is different between kernel 3.4 and kernel 4.0, in this patch, the sysctl method is changed;
>> 2. Because the variables of mcast_resolicit is different, in this patch, the function neigh_max_probes is changed;
>> 3. Because there are so many modifications in this patch, so the author is changed to me;
>>
>> Zhu Yanjun (1):
>> net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of
>> multicast resolicitations in PROBE state
>>
>> include/linux/neighbour.h | 1 +
>> include/net/neighbour.h | 1 +
>> net/core/neighbour.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
>> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
> Hmm, it needs additional knob to change this 10+-year-old
> behavior. I am not for backporting this to old stable
> kernels unless all stable kernels supports this knob as
> well.
>
HI, YOSHIFUJI
>From your perspective, what is the additional knob ? would you like to
let me know?
Best Regards!
Zhu Yanjun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-25 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-24 9:45 [PATCH for kernel 3.4.x 0/1] net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of multicast resolicitations in PROBE state Zhu Yanjun
2015-03-24 9:45 ` [PATCH for kernel 3.4.x 1/1] " Zhu Yanjun
2015-03-24 9:51 ` Zhu, Yanjun
2015-03-24 15:55 ` David Miller
2015-03-25 2:22 ` yzhu1
2015-03-24 10:35 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-03-25 6:40 ` yzhu1
2015-03-24 11:06 ` [PATCH for kernel 3.4.x 0/1] " YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-03-24 15:59 ` David Miller
2015-03-24 23:06 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-03-25 2:24 ` yzhu1 [this message]
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