netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] netdevice: add IPv4 fib add/del ops

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Date:	Sun, 08 Mar 2015 07:31:50 -0700
From:	roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
CC:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiří Pírko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	"alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com" <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] netdevice: add IPv4 fib add/del ops

On 3/6/15, 11:59 AM, Scott Feldman wrote:
>
> I considered passing netlink flags in to driver, but the kernel logic
> in fib_table_insert() already takes care of the checks required by the
> flags, and from the driver's perspective, only three ops are needed:
> add, del, and mod.  And I've combined add and mod into the same op,
> with the assumption the driver can know if an entry exists or not.
>
> Can it work?
>
> Let's try the various user cmds and see what happens:
>
> ip route add ...             CREATE|EXCL
>
>      if kernel FIB entry exists
>          return -EEXIST to user
>      else
>          call driver add op
>          add kernel FIB entry
>
> ip route change ...        REPLACE
>
>      if kernel FIB entry exists
>          call driver add op             // driver treats this as a mod
>          modify kernel FIB entry
>      else
>          return -ENOENT
>
> ip route replace ...         CREATE|REPLACE
>
>      if kernel FIB entry exists
>           call driver add op             // driver treats this as a mod
>           modify kernel FIB entry
>      else
>          call driver add op
>          add kernel FIB entry
>
> ip route prepend ...        CREATE
>
>      if kernel FIB entry exists
>           call driver add op             // driver treats this as a mod
>           prepend kernel FIB entry
>      else
>          call driver add op
>          add kernel FIB entry
>
> ip route append ...          CREATE|APPEND
>
>      if kernel FIB entry exists
>           call driver add op             // driver treats this as a mod
>           append kernel FIB entry
>      else
>          call driver add op
>          add kernel FIB entry
>
>
> I'm not 100% on the prepend/append cases.  Maybe don't try to offload
> prepend/append cases?
We will have to offload prepend/append cases as well (I had also raised 
this earlier in v2).
  And, I dont see a problem passing the flags to the driver in the ndo op.

Thanks,
Roopa



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