Re: [PATCH 5.4 175/244] inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jun 16 2021 - 03:16:24 EST


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:02:44AM +0300, Amit Klein wrote:
> Hi Greg et al.
>
> I see that you backported this patch (increasing the IP ID hash table size)
> to the newer LTS branches more than a month ago. But I don't see that it
> was backported to older LTS branches (4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4). Is this
> intentional?

It applies cleanly to 4.19, but not the older ones. If you think it is
needed there for those kernels, please provide a working backport that
we can apply.

thanks,

greg k-h