From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] net: igmp: Don't flush routing cache when force_igmp_version is modified Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 02:45:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20130807004547.GF16410@order.stressinduktion.org> References: <20130731063442.GA10498@order.stressinduktion.org> <1375812195-6575-1-git-send-email-william.manley@youview.com> <1375812195-6575-3-git-send-email-william.manley@youview.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bcrl@kvack.org, luky-37@hotmail.com, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, davem@davemloft.net To: William Manley Return-path: Received: from order.stressinduktion.org ([87.106.68.36]:35851 "EHLO order.stressinduktion.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756665Ab3HGAps (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:45:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1375812195-6575-3-git-send-email-william.manley@youview.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 07:03:14PM +0100, William Manley wrote: > The procfs knob /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/force_igmp_version allows the > IGMP protocol version to use to be explicitly set. As a side effect this > caused the routing cache to be flushed as it was declared as a > DEVINET_SYSCTL_FLUSHING_ENTRY. Flushing is unnecessary and this patch > makes it so flushing does not occur. > > Requested by Hannes Frederic Sowa as he was reviewing other patches > adding procfs entries. > > Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa > Signed-off-by: William Manley Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa