This set adds support for a new nexthop group - active-backup. The intent is that the group describes a primary nexthop with a backup option if the primary is not available. Since nexthop code removes entries on carrier or admin down this really means the backup applies when the neighbor entry for the active becomes invalid. In that case, the lookup atomically switches to use the backup. I mentioned this use case at LPC2019[0] as a follow on use case for the nexthop code.
The first 6 patches refactor existing code to get ready for a new group type. The a-b group is added in patch 7 with selftests in patch 8. [0] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/434/attachments/251/436/nexthop-objects-talk.pdf David Ahern (8): nexthop: Rename nexthop_free_mpath nexthop: Refactor nexthop_select_path nexthop: Refactor nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh nexthop: Move nexthop_get_nhc_lookup to nexthop.c nexthop: Move nexthop_uses_dev to nexthop.c nexthop: Add primary_only argument to nexthop_for_each_fib6_nh nexthop: Add support for active-backup nexthop type selftests: Add active-backup nexthop tests include/net/nexthop.h | 106 +++--- include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h | 1 + net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 356 +++++++++++++++++--- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 37 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/fib_nexthops.sh | 334 +++++++++++++++++- 7 files changed, 713 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-) -- 2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3)
