netdev - Re: [patch net-next 4/6] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Don't check state when refreshing offload indication

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Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2017 17:21:25 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
        hannes@...essinduktion.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 4/6] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Don't check state
 when refreshing offload indication

On 8/2/17 1:56 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> 
> Previous patch removed the reliance on the counter in the FIB info to
> set the offload indication, so we no longer need to keep an offload
> state on each FIB entry and can just set or unset the RTNH_F_OFFLOAD
> flag in each nexthop.
> 
> This is also necessary because we're going to need to refresh the
> offload indication whenever the nexthop group associated with the FIB
> entry is refreshed. Current check would prevent us from marking a newly
> resolved nexthop as offloaded if the FIB entry is already marked as
> offloaded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 13 ++-----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>