From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/1] ipv6: add support of equal cost multipath (ECMP) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:43:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20121002.144300.2008381378733752041.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1349193767-3992-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <1349193767-3992-2-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <506B1104.7030908@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: joe@perches.com, bernat@luffy.cx, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:49869 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753097Ab2JBSnC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:43:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <506B1104.7030908@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: =46rom: Nicolas Dichtel Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:06:28 +0200 > Le 02/10/2012 18:02, Nicolas Dichtel a =E9crit : >> Each nexthop is added like a single route in the routing table. All >> routes >> that have the same metric/weight and destination but not the same >> gateway >> are considering as ECMP routes. They are linked together, through a >> list called >> rt6i_siblings. >> >> ECMP routes can be added in one shot, with RTA_MULTIPATH attribute o= r >> one after >> the other (in both case, the flag NLM_F_EXCL should not be set). >> >> The patch is based on a previous work from >> Luc Saillard . >> >> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel > I forget to run checkpatch.pl, some lines are over 80 columns. I will > fix it in the v7 with other comments (if any). No rush as this is too late for this merge window anyways.