netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 3/3] rcv path changes for vrf traffic

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Date:	Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:13:08 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...atatu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	andy gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	jtoppins@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 3/3] rcv path changes for vrf traffic

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015, at 00:05, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 21:58:37 +0200
> 
> > +static inline u32 ipv4_idev_rt_table(const struct net_device *dev)
> > +{
> > +       u32 table_id;
> > +
> > +       rcu_read_lock();
> > +       table_id = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev)->rt_table_id;
> > +       rcu_read_unlock();
> > +
> > +       return table_id != RT_TABLE_UNSPEC ? table_id : RT_TABLE_LOCAL;
> > +}
> 
> It's a real shame you have to do all of this RCU locking and inetdev
> deref, because in more than half of the call sites the idev is already
> available.

I agree, I was not happy with that either.

It is easy to move the rt_table_id to net_device and use the same one
for IPv6.
This would force people to build symmetric routing configurations. I was
striving for
maximum flexibility first but I don't really think this matters here.

Bye,
Hannes
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