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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:31:15 -0400
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] ipv4: Add interface option to enable routing
 of 127.0.0.0/8

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:14:44AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, would it be more efficient to implement this by
> optionally adding a prohibit route to the local table for 127.0.0.0/8 to every
> interface that was brought up, based on weather or not that interfaces
> route_localnet bool was true or not?  It would save the additional checks in the
> routing path I think.  Not sure how much a savings that is, but I thought I
> would ask.

It's not that simple because we also use the local table for source
address selection and local address verification. So we would have to
exclude/include such routes conditionally based on some route lookup
purpose indicator. Such a prohibit route would have to be valid only
in the output context.
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