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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:26:48 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@FreeBSD.org>,  George Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r288301 - in head/sys: net netinet netinet6
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1509271225300.92377@ai.fobar.qr>
In-Reply-To: <201509270529.t8R5TYRf095540@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201509270529.t8R5TYRf095540@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:

> Author: melifaro
> Date: Sun Sep 27 05:29:34 2015
> New Revision: 288301
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/288301
>
> Log:
>  Eliminate nd6_nud_hint() and its TCP bindings.
>
>  Initially function was introduced in r53541 (KAME initial commit) to
>    "provide hints from upper layer protocols that indicate a connection
>    is making "forward progress"" (quote from RFC 2461 7.3.1 Reachability
>    Confirmation).
>  However, it was converted to do nothing (e.g. just return) in r122922
>    (tcp_hostcache implementation) back in 2003. Some defines were moved
>    to tcp_var.h in r169541. Then, it was broken (for non-corner cases)
>    by r186119 (L2<>L3 split) in 2008 (NULL ifp in nd6_lookup). So,
>    right now this code is broken and has no "real" base users.
>
>  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3699

PR:	165692

It would be nice to have the feature back though it would be very
expensive locking wise if it'd remain a per-packet operation.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb             "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames, 1983



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