On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 09:53:28AM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > On 7/19/17 9:49 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 09:27:30AM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > >> On 7/19/17 1:02 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > >>> Allow user space applications to see which routes are offloaded and > >>> which aren't by setting the RTNH_F_OFFLOAD flag when dumping them. > >>> > >>> To be consistent with IPv4, a multipath route is marked as offloaded if > >>> one of its nexthops is offloaded. Individual nexthops aren't marked with > >>> the 'offload' flag. > >> > >> It is more user friendly to report the offload per nexthop especially > >> given the implications. There are already flags per nexthop and those > >> flags are pushed to userspace so not an API change at all. > > > > I thought about it, but then just decided to be consistent with IPv4. > > And the comment stems from just that. I was looking at IPv4 ECMP routes > a few days ago and the existence / lack of offload flag was not intuitive.
Understood. I intend to change that.
