Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Patrick McHardy
Patrick McHardy wrote: I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. The table IDs are changed to 32 bit values and are contained in a new netlink routing attribute. For compatibility rtm_table in struct rtmsg can still be used

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Ben Greear
Patrick McHardy wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. I am seeing problems..though they could be with the way I'm using the tool or pehaps I patched the kernel incorrectly. I applied the 3

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Patrick McHardy
Ben Greear wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. I am seeing problems..though they could be with the way I'm using the tool or pehaps I patched the kernel incorrectly. I applied the

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Ben Greear
Patrick McHardy wrote: Ben Greear wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. I am seeing problems..though they could be with the way I'm using the tool or pehaps I patched the kernel

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Patrick McHardy
David Miller wrote: Nice work Patrick. You guys have a lot of time to flesh out any remaining issues and failures, and then submit this for 2.6.19 Will do, I already expected to miss the deadline :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Patrick McHardy
Ben Greear wrote: With this patch applied everything is looking much better. I currently have 400+ interfaces and one routing table per interface, and traffic is passing as expected. This is probably due to my own application polling interfaces for stat updates...but I am seeing over 50%

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-07 Thread Ben Greear
Patrick McHardy wrote: Ben Greear wrote: With this patch applied everything is looking much better. I currently have 400+ interfaces and one routing table per interface, and traffic is passing as expected. This is probably due to my own application polling interfaces for stat updates...but I

[RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-03 Thread Patrick McHardy
I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. The table IDs are changed to 32 bit values and are contained in a new netlink routing attribute. For compatibility rtm_table in struct rtmsg can still be used to access the first 255

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-03 Thread Patrick McHardy
Patrick McHardy wrote: I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. The table IDs are changed to 32 bit values and are contained in a new netlink routing attribute. For compatibility rtm_table in struct rtmsg can still be used

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-03 Thread Patrick McHardy
Patrick McHardy wrote: Patrick McHardy wrote: I took on Ben's challenge to increase the number of possible routing tables, these are the resulting patches. The table IDs are changed to 32 bit values and are contained in a new netlink routing attribute. For compatibility rtm_table in struct

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Graf
* Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-03 11:38 That wasn't entirely true either, its not inet_check_attr but rtnetlink_rcv_message that aborts, and it does this on all kernels. Somehow I thought unknown attributes were usually ignored .. This only applies to the first level of rtnetlink

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-03 Thread Patrick McHardy
Thomas Graf wrote: * Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-03 11:38 That wasn't entirely true either, its not inet_check_attr but rtnetlink_rcv_message that aborts, and it does this on all kernels. Somehow I thought unknown attributes were usually ignored .. This only applies to the

Re: [RFC NET 00/04]: Increase number of possible routing tables

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Graf
* Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-03 13:36 They will as long as this feature isn't used, the RTA_TABLE attribute is only added to the message when the table id is 255. Worked fine during my tests, or are you refering to something else? Perfect, I said nothing :) - To unsubscribe