On 1/7/18 3:45 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote: > We are going to allow dead routes to stay in the FIB tree (e.g., when > they are part of a multipath route, directly connected route with no > carrier) and revive them when their nexthop device gains carrier or when > it is put administratively up. > > This is equivalent to the addition of the route to the FIB tree and we > should therefore take care of updating the sernum of all the parent > nodes of the node where the route is stored. Otherwise, we risk sockets > caching and using sub-optimal dst entries. > > Export the function that performs the above, so that it could be invoked > from fib6_ifup() later on. > > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> > --- > include/net/ip6_fib.h | 1 + > net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 11 ++++++++--- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
