From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Multiple IPV6 Routing Tables & Policy Routing
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:40:43 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:23:08 +0200

> This patchset implements multiple IPv6 routing tables and
> policy routing. Even though the code is almost rewritten
> entirely the work is based on the MIPL patch found on
> mobile-ipv6.org which is being jointly developed by Helsinki
> University of Technology (HUT) and the USAGI/WIDE Project.
> 
> Reference counting on routing tables was removed to decrease
> the number of required atomic operations during route lookup.
> 
> The tables are now organized in a hashtable to prepare for
> the change in supporting more than 255 tables.
> 
> Matching sources address in policy rules is no longer dependant
> on CONFIG_SUBTREES.

All patches added to net-2.6.19, thanks a lot Thomas.

Please submit any further improvements and bug fixes relative
to these changes, thanks a lot.