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[1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation (v2)

Message ID 1420674356-32210-1-git-send-email-ani@arista.com
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Ani Sinha Jan. 7, 2015, 11:45 p.m. UTC
Update documentation to reflect the fact that
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for ipv4.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
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 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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Ani Sinha Jan. 9, 2015, 6:34 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com> wrote:
> Update documentation to reflect the fact that
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for ipv4.

Any more feedback on this?
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David Miller Jan. 12, 2015, 8:39 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Jan 2015 15:45:56 -0800

> Update documentation to reflect the fact that
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for ipv4.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>

Applied, thank you.
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9bffdfc..85b0221 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@  fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
 route/max_size - INTEGER
 	Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
 	this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
+	From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
+	as route cache is no longer used.
 
 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
 	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not