From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE85C48BE5 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B09613DA for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231391AbhFPHSV (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2021 03:18:21 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:40698 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231316AbhFPHSU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2021 03:18:20 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9B326008E; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:16:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1623827775; bh=9qGdO2wBdEMdE23f0+niv6wXKe+kkTjZ7rWvVOa2+xs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=GbF1IaBPqdIiztQLgdypet1kXwUo3rxx3NQ/cCX2vKf8nAmzsTRmoDekd9bFl0nkK s6354+3IQyQZN4KrfuhMhEBca6we0MkpB8T8isTUqJ+0wHaeMFXOMTdKcTNZnBDse7 ESbbgaY9M/35PrsaSnTF38SD08WDPKEOSL1+mCrU= Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:16:12 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Amit Klein Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Willy Tarreau , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 175/244] inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation Message-ID: References: <20210512144743.039977287@linuxfoundation.org> <20210512144748.600206118@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:02:44AM +0300, Amit Klein wrote: > Hi Greg et al. > > I see that you backported this patch (increasing the IP ID hash table size) > to the newer LTS branches more than a month ago. But I don't see that it > was backported to older LTS branches (4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4). Is this > intentional? It applies cleanly to 4.19, but not the older ones. If you think it is needed there for those kernels, please provide a working backport that we can apply. thanks, greg k-h