netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/6] ipv4: Changes for rt

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Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:43:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ja@....bg
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/6] ipv4: Changes for rt_gateway

From: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2012 00:41:14 +0300

> 	This patchset fixes some problems for the routing caused
> by the new rt_gateway semantics. What started as a fix for
> IPVS-DR ended as fixes for more problems. To solve the IPVS
> problem I decided to name the flag FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH, so that
> we can even get route cached in FNHE or FIB NH.
> 
> 	Different flag FLOWI_FLAG_RT_NOCACHE could be equally good
> for IPVS, we again would be able to use data from fnhe but working
> with cached routes should be preferred. If there is no FNHE, the
> common case is IPVS to get uncached route, of course, IPVS caches
> it itself.
> 
> 	Patches 1-3 are fixes not related to IPVS problem,
> 4 and 5 add code that will be used by IPVS in patch 6.

This series looks great, applied, thanks Julian.
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