netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-ipv6: changes to ->tclass (via IPV6_TCLASS) should sk_dst

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Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:01:25 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:     Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        Linux Network Development Mailing List 
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-ipv6: changes to ->tclass (via IPV6_TCLASS) should
 sk_dst_reset()

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:32:08 -0800 Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> 
> This is to match ipv4 behaviour, see __ip_sock_set_tos()
> implementation.
> 
> Technically for ipv6 this might not be required because normally we
> do not allow tclass to influence routing, yet the cli tooling does
> support it:
> 
> lpk11:~# ip -6 rule add pref 5 tos 45 lookup 5
> lpk11:~# ip -6 rule
> 5:      from all tos 0x45 lookup 5
> 
> and in general dscp/tclass based routing does make sense.
> 
> We already have cases where dscp can affect vlan priority and/or
> transmit queue (especially on wifi).
> 
> So let's just make things match.  Easier to reason about and no harm.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

Please send related patches as a series. There are dependencies here
which prevent the build bot from doing its job (plus it's less work 
for me since I apply by series :)).