netdev - Re: [PATCH] Use sk_mark for IPv6 routing lookups

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Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:55:41 +0300
From:	Atis Elsts <atis@...rotik.com>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Cc:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sk_mark for IPv6 routing lookups

On Friday 02 October 2009 21:19:05 Brian Haley wrote:
> Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > Cool!
> > 
> > As I've already pointed out in a post 2 or so weeks ago, we need the
> > exact same treatment in a ton of places throughout the code (tcp,
> > ipv6, decnet, etc...).
> 
> Here's a try at the IPv6 part...
> 
> 
> Add support for IPv6 route lookups using sk_mark.
> 

Not sure if there is need to fill the mark from skb in tunnel xmit functions. In any case, it's not done for GRE or IPIP tunnels at the moment.

Also, in this patch you are doing that for SIT (v6-in-v4) tunnels only, and not doing it for v4-in-v6 or v6-in-v6 tunnels. Any reason for that?

Atis
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