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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

      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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