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| From | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.16 119/134] ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting |
| Date | 2017-08-26 02:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <uixiO-2At-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 06:53 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > 3.16.47-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> > > > > commit 82486aa6f1b9bc8145e6d0fa2bc0b44307f3b875 upstream. [...] > I thought we refined this later with : In fact it was reverted upstream, then replaced by the commits you point out. Thanks; I don't know why I missed that. > commit 3fb07daff8e99243366a081e5129560734de4ada > Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> > Date: Thu May 25 14:27:35 2017 -0700 > > ipv4: add reference counting to metrics [...] It's not obvious how to backport this, as it adds: +#define DST_METRICS_REFCOUNTED 0x2UL but 3.16 already has a flag with value 2. I don't think we can take another bit from the pointer as metrics are only 32-bit aligned. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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Re: [PATCH 3.16 119/134] ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-26 02:40 +0200
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