netdev - Re: [RFC,net-next, 2/5] vrf: track associations between VRF devices and tables

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Message-Id: <20200614005353.fb4083bed70780feee2fd19a@uniroma2.it>
Date:   Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:53:53 +0200
From:   Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@...roma2.it>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Shrijeet Mukherjee <shrijeet@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Donald Sharp <sharpd@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Dinesh Dutt <didutt@...il.com>,
        Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@...roma2.it>,
        Paolo Lungaroni <paolo.lungaroni@...t.it>,
        Ahmed Abdelsalam <ahabdels@...il.com>,
        Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@...roma2.it>
Subject: Re: [RFC,net-next, 2/5] vrf: track associations between VRF devices
 and tables

Hi Stephen,
thanks for your questions.

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:28:59 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:

> > +
> > +	 * Conversely, shared_table is decreased when a vrf is de-associated
> > +	 * from a table with exactly two associated vrfs.
> > +	 */
> > +	int shared_tables;
> 
> Should this be unsigned?
> Should it be a fixed size?

Yes. I think an u32 would be reasonable for the shared_table.
What do you think?

Andrea