From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752240AbbAFXg2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 18:36:28 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:52961 "EHLO mail-pd0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751085AbbAFXg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 18:36:26 -0500 From: Ani Sinha To: corbet@lwn.net, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ani@arista.com, P@draigbrady.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, fruggeri@arista.com Subject: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 15:36:22 -0800 Message-Id: <1420587382-24612-1-git-send-email-ani@arista.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- 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. neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not -- 1.7.4.4