netdev - Re: [net PATCH 1/2] ipv4: Restore fib_trie_flush_external function and fix call ordering

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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:30:14 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net PATCH 1/2] ipv4: Restore fib_trie_flush_external function
 and fix call ordering

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 05:46 -0500, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The patch that removed the FIB offload infrastructure was a bit too
> aggressive and also removed code needed to clean up us splitting the table
> if additional rules were added.  Specifically the function
> fib_trie_flush_external was called at the end of a new rule being added to
> flush the foreign trie entries from the main trie.
> 
> I updated the code so that we only call fib_trie_flush_external on the main
> table so that we flush the entries for local from main.  This way we don't
> call it for every rule change which is what was happening previously.
> 
> Fixes: 347e3b28c1ba2 ("switchdev: remove FIB offload infrastructure")
> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> ---


Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks for sorting this out Alex !