netdev - Re: [PATCH] Add sk_mark route lookup support for IPv4 listening sockets, and for IPv4 multicast forwarding

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Message-ID: <55a4f86e0910140250o45532dabr33707c025dfa25f9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:50:47 -0700
From:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	steve@...gwyn.com, atis@...rotik.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	panther@...abit.hu, eric.dumazet@...il.com, brian.haley@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add sk_mark route lookup support for IPv4 listening 
	sockets, and for IPv4 multicast forwarding

Problem is the primary purpose of the mark is to enable matching on
the mark in the routing tables.

See 'ip rule  ... fwmark X ...'

ie. that fails due to circular dependency.


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:15, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: steve@...gwyn.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:23:19 +0100
>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:51:56AM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
>>> I'm thinking that the mark should be a tunnel parameter with values of
>>> inherit or a constant.
>>>
>> Why not do this on a per-route basis (i.e. lets suppose we add a
>> "setmark" parameter to each route) and this would allow changing
>> a mark when a packet matches the route. This not only solves the
>> tunnel case, but would be generically useful as well.
>>
>> Since we have to look up routes anyway, it shouldn't add any
>> real overhead to the routing process and we can benefit from
>> all the existing infrastructure (route cache, etc).
>
> This idea, I like :-)
>
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