Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 31/53] neighbor: fix proxy_delay usage when it is zero

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:15:04AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:44:23 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Brian Haley <haleyb.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 62e395f82d04510b0f86e5e603e29412be88596f ]
> >
> > When set to zero, the neighbor sysctl proxy_delay value
> > does not cause an immediate reply for ARP/ND requests
> > as expected, it instead causes a random delay between
> > [0, U32_MAX). Looking at this comment from
> > __get_random_u32_below() explains the reason:
>
> Potential behavior change, can we wait 4 weeks, until it's been
> in a couple of -rcs?

Ack, will revisit this later. Thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha