netdev - Re: [patch net-next 00/21] mlxsw: Support for IPv6 UC router

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Date:   Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, kafai@...com,
        hannes@...essinduktion.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 00/21] mlxsw: Support for IPv6 UC router

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 16:39:54 -0600

> On 8/3/17 4:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
>> Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2017 13:28:10 +0200
>> 
>>> This set adds support for IPv6 unicast routes offload.
>> 
>> Series applied, thanks.
>> 
> 
> I take it you disagree with my comment on patch 10 about the RTF_OFFLOAD
> flag? that is a nexthop flag and has no business being part of the UAPI
> for IPv6.

Oh crap, I missed that.

But unlike the percpu flag, don't we want to somehow propagate offload
state to the user?

I'm sure whatever we decide Jiri will send and appropriate follow-up
so don't panic :)