netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] net: ipv4: Consider failed nexthops in multipath routes

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Date:	Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:35:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ja@....bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] net: ipv4: Consider failed nexthops in
 multipath routes

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Sun,  3 Apr 2016 17:09:07 -0700

> +		rcu_read_lock_bh();
> +
> +		n = __neigh_lookup_noref(&arp_tbl, &nh->nh_gw, nh->nh_dev);
> +		if (n)
> +			state = n->nud_state;
> +
> +		rcu_read_unlock_bh();

Please use __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref() (from net/arp.h), it inlines
the comparison and hash functions and is therefore several orders of
magnitude faster.