netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/16] Handle redirects just like PMTU

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:58:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/16] Handle redirects just like PMTU

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:45:33 +0200

> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 01:10 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> As described in my patch series from the other day, we need to
>> rearrange redirect handling so that the local initiators of packets
>> (sockets, tunnels, xfrms, etc.) that implement the protocols compute
>> the route and pass this down into the ipv4/ipv6 routing code.
>> 
>> These changes here do so by implementing a new dst_ops->redirect
>> method.
>> 
>> No more do we have this funny code that tries several different sets
>> of routing keys to try and figure out which route the redirect should
>> actually be applied to.
>> 
>> No more do we have the problem wherein TOS rewriting causes problems
>> for us.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> Wow, this looks very good.
> 
> I did a quick review and found no obvious problem.
> 
> Bye bye ip_rt_redirect(), finally ;)

Great.  I'm feeling brave so I'll push this out to net-next after
doing some more build validation.:)

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