netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 1/1] ipv6: add support of equal cost multipath (ECMP)

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Message-Id: <20121023.023910.80461258323920266.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:39:10 -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, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 1/1] ipv6: add support of equal cost
 multipath (ECMP)

From: nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:42:09 +0200

> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> 
> 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>

Applied, thanks.
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