2023-01-16 01:48:35

by Jon Maxwell

Subject: [net-next] ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is depreciated

Document that max_size is depreciated due to:

af6d10345ca7 ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4

Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 7fbd060d6047..edf1fcd10c5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ route/max_size - INTEGER
From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
as route cache is no longer used.

+ From linux kernel 6.2 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv6
+ as garbage collection manages cached route entries.
+
neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
--
2.31.1

2023-01-17 12:58:25

by Paolo Abeni

Subject: Re: [net-next] ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is depreciated

Hi,

On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 11:21 +1100, Jon Maxwell wrote:
> Document that max_size is depreciated due to:
>
> af6d10345ca7 ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4

I'm sorry for the nit picking, could you please use the standard commit
reference? commit <hash> ("<title>")

Thanks!

Paolo