netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/18] ipv6: Remove redundant route flushing during namespace dismantle

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Date:   Sun, 7 Jan 2018 09:53:00 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, weiwan@...gle.com, kafai@...com,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/18] ipv6: Remove redundant route flushing
 during namespace dismantle

On 1/7/18 3:45 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> By the time fib6_net_exit() is executed all the netdevs in the namespace
> have been either unregistered or pushed back to the default namespace.
> That is because pernet subsys operations are always ordered before
> pernet device operations and therefore invoked after them during
> namespace dismantle.
> 
> Thus, all the routing tables in the namespace are empty by the time
> fib6_net_exit() is invoked and the call to rt6_ifdown() can be removed.
> 
> This allows us to simplify the condition in fib6_ifdown() as it's only
> ever called with an actual netdev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 1 -
>  net/ipv6/route.c   | 8 +++-----
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

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