netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] vxlan: improve vxlan route lookup checks.

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:10:25 -0800
From:   Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] vxlan: improve vxlan route lookup checks.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:34:06 -0800, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> Why it would not help in non-ovs vxlan egress path? It avoids checking
>> (if condition) for device loop.
>
> I may be missing something but I count the same number of conditions
> for each packet, they're just at a different place after the patch.
>
I am specifically talking about cached routes. If the dst entry is
cached, this patch avoids checking for device loop.

> E.g. for IPv4, the "if (!sock4)" is moved from vxlan_xmit_one into
> vxlan_get_route and the "rt" error handling stays logically the same
> (three if conditions in the non-error path) but is moved into
> vxlan_get_route. Similarly for IPv6.
>
>  Jiri