netdev - Re: ARP resolving for switch drivers

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:18:36 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ARP resolving for switch drivers

From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:08:30 -0800

> 1) Routes that overlap tables, or how to assign priority.  I'll look
> at the RFC you sent for collapsing local/main tables.  For now, I used
> fib_info->fib_priority for the priority in the rocker L3 table.  Maybe
> that's good enough once local/main are collapsed?  But for other
> tables, I'm not sure if fib_info->fib_priority will be sufficient.  I
> probably need some guidance here.

It should work with my local/main unification work.

You just have to abort hw offloading if any FIB rule modifications
happen. (ie. all the spots that set net->ipv4.fib_has_custom_rules)
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