netdev - Re: [patch net-next 02/15] net: fib_notifier: make FIB notifier per-netns

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Date:   Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:06:02 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...lanox.com,
        dsahern@...il.com, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        tariqt@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, shuah@...nel.org, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 02/15] net: fib_notifier: make FIB notifier
 per-netns

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 08:45:55AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> Currently all users of FIB notifier only cares about events in init_net.

s/cares/care/

> Later in this patchset, users get interested in other namespaces too.
> However, for every registered block user is interested only about one
> namespace. Make the FIB notifier registration per-netns and avoid
> unnecessary calls of notifier block for other namespaces.

...

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag_mp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag_mp.c
> index 5d20d615663e..fe0cc969cf94 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag_mp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag_mp.c
> @@ -248,9 +248,6 @@ static int mlx5_lag_fib_event(struct notifier_block *nb,
>  	struct net_device *fib_dev;
>  	struct fib_info *fi;
>  
> -	if (!net_eq(info->net, &init_net))
> -		return NOTIFY_DONE;

I don't see anymore uses of 'info->net'. Can it be removed from 'struct
fib_notifier_info' ?