On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:11 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Ani Sinha >> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 ++++-- >> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt >> index 9bffdfc..2a28261 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt >> @@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN >> Default: 0 >> >> route/max_size - INTEGER >> - Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase >> - this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. >> + Post linux kernel 3.6, this is deprecated for ipv4 as route cache is no >> + longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6 >> + routes allowed in the kernel. Increase this when using large numbers of >> + interfaces and/or routes. > > Now imagine you are reading ip-sysctl.txt, the new text is all wrong. > Something like: > Limit on the size of the ip route caches. > Ignored for ipv4 after kernel 3.6 because the ipv4 route cache was removed. > Increase this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. > would read better. Ok please take a look at my patch v2. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
