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

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Date:   Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:34:25 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@...roma2.it>,
        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>
Subject: Re: [RFC,net-next, 2/5] vrf: track associations between VRF devices
 and tables

On 6/13/20 4:53 PM, Andrea Mayer wrote:
> 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?
> 

u32 or unsigned int is fine.