netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/1] ipv6: add support of equal cost multipath (ECMP)

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Message-Id: <20121002.144300.2008381378733752041.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:43:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, bernat@...fy.cx, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/1] ipv6: add support of equal cost
 multipath (ECMP)

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:06:28 +0200

> Le 02/10/2012 18:02, Nicolas Dichtel a écrit :
>> Each nexthop is added like a single route in the routing table. All
>> routes
>> that have the same metric/weight and destination but not the same
>> gateway
>> are considering as ECMP routes. They are linked together, through a
>> list called
>> rt6i_siblings.
>>
>> ECMP routes can be added in one shot, with RTA_MULTIPATH attribute or
>> one after
>> the other (in both case, the flag NLM_F_EXCL should not be set).
>>
>> The patch is based on a previous work from
>> Luc Saillard <luc.saillard@...nd.com>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> I forget to run checkpatch.pl, some lines are over 80 columns. I will
> fix it in the v7 with other comments (if any).

No rush as this is too late for this merge window anyways.
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