From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] ipmr/ip6mr: add Netlink notifications on cache reports Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20170621.112310.1172564089161295858.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170620205418.1648-1-julien@arista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com To: julien@arista.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170620205418.1648-1-julien@arista.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Julien Gomes Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:54:14 -0700 > Currently, all ipmr/ip6mr cache reports are sent through the > mroute/mroute6 socket only. > This forces the use of a single socket for mroute programming, cache > reports and, regarding ipmr, IGMP messages without Router Alert option > reception. > > The present patches are aiming to send Netlink notifications in addition > to the existing igmpmsg/mrt6msg to give user programs a way to handle > cache reports in parallel with multiple sockets other than the > mroute/mroute6 socket. > > Changes in v2: > - Changed attributes naming from {IPMRA,IP6MRA}_CACHEREPORTA_* to > {IPMRA,IP6MRA}_CREPORT_* > - Improved packet data copy to handle non-linear packets in > ipmr/ip6mr cache report Netlink notification creation > - Added two rtnetlink groups with restricted-binding > - Changed cache report notified groups from RTNL_{IPV4,IPV6}_MROUTE to > the new restricted groups in ipmr/ip6mr > > Changes in v3: > - Put message size calculation for {igmp,mrt6}msg_netlink_event in separate > functions > - Increased vif id attributes size from u8 to u32 Series applied, thanks.