Jean-Francois Remy 4bf6980dd0 neighbour: fix base_reachable_time(_ms) not effective immediatly when changed ...

When setting base_reachable_time or base_reachable_time_ms on a
specific interface through sysctl or netlink, the reachable_time
value is not updated.

This means that neighbour entries will continue to be updated using the
old value until it is recomputed in neigh_period_work (which
    recomputes the value every 300*HZ).
On systems with HZ equal to 1000 for instance, it means 5mins before
the change is effective.

This patch changes this behavior by recomputing reachable_time after
each set on base_reachable_time or base_reachable_time_ms.
The new value will become effective the next time the neighbour's timer
is triggered.

Changes are made in two places: the netlink code for set and the sysctl
handling code. For sysctl, I use a proc_handler. The ipv6 network
code does provide its own handler but it already refreshes
reachable_time correctly so it's not an issue.
Any other user of neighbour which provide its own handlers must
refresh reachable_time.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Remy <jeff@melix.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2015-01-14 00:28:00 -05:00

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datagram.c

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dev_addr_lists.c

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2014-11-18 15:26:32 -05:00

dev_ioctl.c

dev_ioctl: use sizeof(x) instead of sizeof x

2014-11-18 15:27:32 -05:00

dev.c

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2014-12-26 17:20:56 -05:00

drop_monitor.c

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2014-08-26 13:45:47 -04:00

dst.c

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2014-12-09 16:08:17 -05:00

ethtool.c

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2014-12-08 21:07:10 -05:00

fib_rules.c

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2014-02-09 19:02:52 -08:00

filter.c

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2014-12-10 23:34:27 -05:00

flow_dissector.c

flow-dissector: Fix alignment issue in __skb_flow_get_ports

2014-10-10 15:33:47 -04:00

flow.c

CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1

2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00

gen_estimator.c

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2014-09-30 01:02:26 -04:00

gen_stats.c

net_sched: fix unused variables in __gnet_stats_copy_basic_cpu()

2014-10-07 00:10:49 -04:00

iovec.c

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2014-11-19 16:23:49 -05:00

link_watch.c

net/core: include linux/types.h instead of asm/types.h

2014-11-18 15:26:32 -05:00

Makefile

dmaengine-3.17

2014-10-07 20:39:25 -04:00

neighbour.c

neighbour: fix base_reachable_time(_ms) not effective immediatly when changed

2015-01-14 00:28:00 -05:00

net_namespace.c

bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc

2014-12-04 14:34:54 -05:00

net-procfs.c

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2013-05-20 13:48:04 -07:00

net-sysfs.c

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2014-12-02 20:01:22 -08:00

net-sysfs.h

net: netdev_kobject_init: annotate with __init

2014-01-05 20:27:54 -05:00

net-traces.c

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2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00

netclassid_cgroup.c

cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes

2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00

netevent.c

net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules

2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00

netpoll.c

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2014-11-21 14:20:17 -05:00

netprio_cgroup.c

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2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00

pktgen.c

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2014-11-19 15:20:15 -05:00

ptp_classifier.c

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2014-08-02 15:03:58 -07:00

request_sock.c

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2014-06-25 16:37:24 -07:00

rtnetlink.c

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2014-12-16 15:41:19 -05:00

scm.c

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2014-12-10 22:41:55 -05:00

secure_seq.c

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2014-08-22 19:57:23 -07:00

skbuff.c

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2014-12-24 00:21:43 -05:00

sock_diag.c

net: filter: split 'struct sk_filter' into socket and bpf parts

2014-08-02 15:03:58 -07:00

sock.c

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2014-12-13 13:33:26 -08:00

stream.c

net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom

2014-01-14 15:15:25 -08:00

sysctl_net_core.c

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2014-11-16 15:59:11 -05:00

timestamping.c

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2014-09-05 17:43:45 -07:00

tso.c

net: tso: fix unaligned access to crafted TCP header in helper API

2014-10-22 12:52:55 -04:00

utils.c

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2014-11-11 14:10:31 -05:00