On 27/09/17 09:23, Jiri Pirko wrote: > From: Yotam Gigi <yot...@mellanox.com> > > When the ipmr starts, it adds one default FIB rule that matches all packets > and sends them to the DEFAULT (multicast) FIB table. A more complex rule > can be added by user to specify that for a specific interface, a packet > should be look up at either an arbitrary table or according to the l3mdev > of the interface. > > For drivers willing to offload the ipmr logic into a hardware but don't > want to offload all the FIB rules functionality, provide a function that > can indicate whether the FIB rule is the default multicast rule, thus only > one routing table is needed. > > This way, a driver can register to the FIB notification chain, get > notifications about FIB rules added and trigger some kind of an internal > abort mechanism when a non default rule is added by the user. > > Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yot...@mellanox.com> > Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > --- > v2->v3: > - Use the already existing ifdef CONFIG_IP_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES > v1->v2: > - Update the lastuse MFC entry field too, in addition to packets an bytes. > --- > include/linux/mroute.h | 7 +++++++ > net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) >
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
