From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:09:49 +0200
> From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
>
> IPv6 routes currently lack nexthop flags as in IPv4. This has several
> implications.
>
> In the forwarding path, it requires us to check the carrier state of the
> nexthop device and potentially ignore a linkdown route, instead of
> checking for RTNH_F_LINKDOWN.
>
> It also requires capable drivers to use the user facing IPv6-specific
> route flags to provide offload indication, instead of using the nexthop
> flags as in IPv4.
>
> Add nexthop flags to IPv6 routes in the 40 bytes hole and use it to
> provide offload indication instead of the RTF_OFFLOAD flag, which is
> removed while it's still not part of any official kernel release.
>
> In the near future we would like to use the field for the
> RTNH_F_{LINKDOWN,DEAD} flags, but this change is more involved and might
> not be ready in time for the current cycle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
Applied.
