Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:52:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in_rmx.c ip_input.c ip_var.h Message-ID: <20020811105249.GB11677@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020809080953.B62786@iguana.icir.org> References: <200208091449.g79EnNRh005472@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020809080953.B62786@iguana.icir.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:09:54AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:49:23AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > ru 2002/08/09 07:49:23 PDT > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > sys/netinet in_rmx.c ip_input.c ip_var.h > > Log: > > MFC: in_rmx.c,v 1.39, ip_input.c,v 1.165, and ip_var.h,v 1.54: > > > > Invalidate cached forwarding route (ipforward_rt) whenever a new > > route is added to the routing table, otherwise we may end up using > > the wrong route when forwarding. > > this reminds me... what do we gain from having one route cached ? > Most if not all boxes talk to multiple destinations anyways, > This works on assumption that two or more consecutive packets to be forwarded are for the same destination. > so we should rather leverage on the cache in ip_flow.c than > use this trick. > Fast forwarding is incompatible with many standard things, as hinted in the inet(4) manpage. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9VkIBUkv4P6juNwoRAu5mAJ98OdzFdQ+hTXC3V2f8u3ATPJtg8ACfQROn iqMN1NZl6b+mc2yruSjMgV0= =i3Tj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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