netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] nfp: flower vxlan neighbour keep-alive

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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:37:53 +0100
From:   John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
To:     Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
Cc:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] nfp: flower vxlan neighbour keep-alive

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:32 PM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Simon Horman
> <simon.horman@...ronome.com> wrote:
> > From: John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
> >
> > Periodically receive messages containing the destination IPs of tunnels
> > that have recently forwarded traffic. Update the neighbour entries 'used'
> > value for these IPs next hop.
>
> Are you proactively sending keep alive messages from the driver or the
> fw? what's wrong with the probes sent by the kernel NUD subsystem?
>

Hi Or,

The messages are sent from the FW to the driver. They indicate which
offloaded tunnels are currently active.

>
> In our driver we also update the used value for neighs of offloaded
> tunnels, we do it based on flow counters for the offloaded tunnels
> which is an evidence for activity. Any reason for you not to apply a
> similar practice?


Yes, this would provide the same outcome. Because our firmware already
offered these messages, we chose to support this approach.

>
>
> Or.