[ovs-dev] [PATCH] tnl-neigh-cache: check for arp expiration.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri May 6 16:23:52 UTC 2016


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 03:58:33PM -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> The neighbor entry expiry is only checked in dpif-poll
> event handler, But in absence of any event we could keep
> using arp entry forever. This patch changes it to check
> expiration on each lookup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>

I guess an alternative would be to introduce a "wait" function to make
sure that expiration happens more expeditiously, but this seems fine
too.

The locking in this module seems a little heavy-handed given that we're
using a cmap.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>



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