From: Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:39:19 +0400
> Patrick McHardy wrote: > > These are the updated patches (against net-2.6.19) to increase the number > > of possible routing tables to 2^32. They basically consist of four parts: > > > > - Use u32 for routing table IDs everywhere inside the kernel > > Just out of curiocity: why current limit of 2^31 isn't sufficient? > Or am I missing the point? The current limit is 256 because the table member of the struct used to configure them is an 8-bit quantity. That's the whole purpose of Patrick's patch set, to provide a new optional attribute that allows specifying a 32-bit rather than the 8-bit table ID. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
