netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/ipv6: Revert attempt to simplify route replace and append

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:02:06 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>, dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sharpd@...ulusnetworks.com,
        Thomas.Winter@...iedtelesis.co.nz, petrm@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/ipv6: Revert attempt to simplify route replace
 and append

On 7/3/18 7:43 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 03:03:12PM -0700, dsahern@...nel.org wrote:
>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>>
>> NetworkManager likes to manage linklocal prefix routes and does so with
>> the NLM_F_APPEND flag, breaking attempts to simplify the IPv6 route
>> code and by extension enable multipath routes with device only nexthops.
>>
>> Revert f34436a43092 and its followup
>> 6eba08c3626b ("ipv6: Only emit append events for appended routes").
>> Update the test cases to reflect the old behavior.
>>
>> Fixes: f34436a43092 ("net/ipv6: Simplify route replace and appending into multipath route")
>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>> ---
>> Ido: I left 5a15a1b07c51. FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_APPEND is not generated for
>>      IPv6, so no harm in leaving it.
> 
> OK, but I had a follow-up series that did further changes in mlxsw
> (merge commit eab9a2d5f323) to support the new behavior. You want to
> revert it and squash to v2 or I'll send another revert?

I'll squash. The ability to add dev only nexthops is clearly needed.
Reverting in 1 patch will help on the next attempt.

It is unfortunate that mlxsw has to replicate the node lookup code.

> 
> Also, Petr added a multipath test that relies on IPv6 device only
> nexthops. See commit 54818c4c4b937.
> 

ok. I'll remove the ipv6 mpath tests as well.