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Up until now, the only FIB entries that were associated with a nexthop
group were routes to remote networks where all the nexthop devices had a
valid router interface (RIF). This is in contrast to the FIB code,
where all the routes are associated with a FIB info. The same design
choice needs to be applied to the driver's cache.
Based on the NH_{ADD,DEL} events which will be added later in the
patchset, we need to be able to change the action (forward / trap)
associated with all the routes using the nexthop group. However, if we
can't link between the nexthop and the routes using it, then the above
is impossible.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The next patch is going to generalize the way in which we store routes.
Instead of attaching a nexthop group only to gatewayed routes, one will
be attached to each route, in a similar way to the way the FIB code
stores its routes.
The above means that any function operating on a nexthop group cannot
assume the group represents only gatewayed nexthops. One such function
is the one that refreshes a nexthop group and updates the adjacency
table following nexthop changes.
For a nexthop group that doesn't represent any gateways this function
would essentially be a NOP, but it would be useful if it did update the
action associated with any route using it. This will allow us to later
consolidate code paths when a nexthop changes following NH_{ADD,DEL}
events.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We currently use the scope of the FIB info to distinguish between a
direct unicast route and a gatewayed one. However, the kernel is
perfectly happy to configure a route with scope UNIVERSE to a directly
connected network.
Instead, we can rely on the first nexthop's scope to check if the route
is gatewayed or not.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Later in the patchset we'll add the NH_{ADD,DEL} events which will let
us know when a nexthop is considered to be dead. Based on these events
we need to be able to add or remove the nexthop from the device's
tables.
Therefore, store the private nexthop structs in a hash table and use the
kernel's fib_nh struct as the key, so that we'll be able to easily find
them when the events are received.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently, when we're notified about a new RTN_UNICAST route we perform
a lookup on the nexthop group list looking for a group with a matching
configuration to that found in the FIB info. This is quite inefficient.
Instead, we can simply rely on the kernel to consolidate several FIB
configurations into the same FIB info and use the FIB info as the key
for our private nexthop group struct.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When we invalidate a nexthop we should also invalidate its neighbour
entry pointer as it might be destroyed later on. This makes the nexthop
de-init function symmetric with its init and also ensures nobody will
try to access the neighbour entry.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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