Re: hard-coded limit on unresolved multicast route cache in ipv4/ipmr.c causes slow, unreliable creation of multicast routes on busy networks

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Jun 25 2019 - 16:03:53 EST


From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:15:07 +0800

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:55:45PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Sukumar Gopalakrishnan <sukumarg1973@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:57:02 +0530
>>
>> > Hi David,
>> >
>> > There are two patch for this issue:
>> > 1) Your changes which removes cache_resolve_queue_len
>> > 2) Hangbin's changes which make cache_resolve_queue_len configurable.
>> >
>> > Which one will be chosen for this issue ?
>>
>> I do plan to look into this, sorry for taking so long.
>>
>> Right now I am overwhelmed preparing for the next merge window and
>> synchronizing with other developers for that.
>>
>> Please be patient.
>
> Hi David,
>
> Any progress for this issue?

I have absolutely no context from a discussion that happened back in Dec 2018

If it is important to you, please restart the discussion with a new mailing list
posting restating the problem from the beginning and reiterating all of the
points and arguments that have been made thus far.