netdev - Re: [patch net-next 00/21] mlxsw: Support for IPv6 UC router

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Message-ID: <172d26bc-cb59-c3c7-7ca4-1308f4853e8c@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2017 16:54:35 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, kafai@...com,
        hannes@...essinduktion.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 00/21] mlxsw: Support for IPv6 UC router

On 8/3/17 4:41 PM, David Miller wrote:
> But unlike the percpu flag, don't we want to somehow propagate offload
> state to the user?

It's a per nexthop flag. For IPv4 it is tracked in fib_nh.nh_flags.
Perhaps it is time for rt6_info to have nh_flags as well.

> 
> I'm sure whatever we decide Jiri will send and appropriate follow-up
> so don't panic :)
>