On 8/22/2019 3:28 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Casey Schaufler <ca...@schaufler-ca.com> > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:59:37 -0700 > >> Sure, you *can* do that, but it would be insane to do so. > We look up the neighbour table entries on every single packet we > transmit from the kernel in the same exact way. > > And it was exactly to get rid of a pointer in a data structure.
I very much expect that the lifecycle management issues would be completely different, but I'll admit to having little understanding of the details of the neighbour table.
