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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v4 00/10] ipv4: fib: Replay events when
 registering FIB notifier
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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Sat,  3 Dec 2016 16:44:57 +0100

> Ido says:
> 
> In kernel 4.9 the switchdev-specific FIB offload mechanism was replaced
> by a new FIB notification chain to which modules could register in order
> to be notified about the addition and deletion of FIB entries. The
> motivation for this change was that switchdev drivers need to be able to
> reflect the entire FIB table and not only FIBs configured on top of the
> port netdevs themselves. This is useful in case of in-band management.
> 
> The fundamental problem with this approach is that upon registration
> listeners lose all the information previously sent in the chain and
> thus have an incomplete view of the FIB tables, which can result in
> packet loss. This patchset fixes that by dumping the FIB tables and
> replaying notifications previously sent in the chain for the registered
> notification block.
> 
> The entire dump process is done under RCU and thus the FIB notification
> chain is converted to be atomic. The listeners are modified accordingly.
> This is done in the first eight patches.
> 
> The ninth patch adds a change sequence counter to ensure the integrity
> of the FIB dump. The last patch adds the dump itself to the FIB chain
> registration function and modifies existing listeners to pass a callback
> to be executed in case dump was inconsistent.
 ...

Series applied, thanks.