From: David Miller <davem@redhat.com>
To: dsahern@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@idosch.org,
roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
weiwan@google.com, kafai@fb.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 16/20] net/ipv6: Cleanup exception route handling
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:29:30 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180226.152930.2200592176841409220.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4271dfc0-4f94-d14d-18b9-ea06831bde95@gmail.com>
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:25:37 -0700
> Anyways, because rt6_info is used for both FIB and dst the lookup
> functions can overload the rt6_info variable usually called 'rt'. This
> patch introduces a new 'f6i' variable name for the result of the FIB
> lookup and keeps 'rt' as the dst based return variable. 'f6i' becomes a
> fib6_info in patch 19 which is why it is introduced as 'struct rt6_info
> *f6i' now; avoids the additional churn in patch 19.
This I understand. :)
Adjust this commit message to include some of this text and I'm
happy.
BTW, I love patch #20, those edits must have been fun to make :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-26 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-25 19:47 [PATCH RFC net-next 00/20] net/ipv6: Separate data structures for FIB and data path David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 01/20] net: Move fib_convert_metrics to dst core David Ahern
2018-02-26 19:05 ` David Miller
2018-02-26 20:07 ` David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 02/20] vrf: Move fib6_table into net_vrf David Ahern
2018-02-26 19:08 ` David Miller
2018-02-26 20:13 ` David Ahern
2018-02-26 20:34 ` David Miller
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 03/20] net/ipv6: Pass net to fib6_update_sernum David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 04/20] net/ipv6: Pass net namespace to route functions David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 05/20] net/ipv6: Move support functions up in route.c David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 06/20] net/ipv6: Save route type in rt6_info flags David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 07/20] net/ipv6: Move nexthop data to fib6_nh David Ahern
2018-02-26 22:28 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-26 22:47 ` David Ahern
2018-02-26 23:05 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 08/20] net/ipv6: Defer initialization of dst to data path David Ahern
2018-02-26 19:17 ` David Miller
2018-02-26 20:20 ` David Ahern
2018-02-26 20:22 ` David Miller
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 09/20] net/ipv6: move metrics from dst to rt6_info David Ahern
2018-02-27 0:01 ` [net/ipv6] 15c9251fd2: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel kernel test robot
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 10/20] net/ipv6: move expires into rt6_info David Ahern
2018-02-26 22:28 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-26 22:55 ` David Ahern
2018-02-27 0:31 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-28 19:21 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2018-02-28 22:25 ` David Ahern
2018-02-28 22:56 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 11/20] net/ipv6: Add fib6_null_entry David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 12/20] net/ipv6: Add rt6_info create function for ip6_pol_route_lookup David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 13/20] net/ipv6: Move dst flags to booleans in fib entries David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 14/20] net/ipv6: Create a neigh_lookup for FIB entries David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 15/20] net/ipv6: Add gfp_flags to route add functions David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 16/20] net/ipv6: Cleanup exception route handling David Ahern
2018-02-26 19:27 ` David Miller
2018-02-26 20:25 ` David Ahern
2018-02-26 20:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-02-26 22:29 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-26 23:02 ` David Ahern
2018-02-27 0:32 ` Wei Wang
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 17/20] net/ipv6: introduce fib6_info struct and helpers David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 18/20] net/ipv6: separate handling of FIB entries from dst based routes David Ahern
2018-02-28 18:44 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2018-02-28 20:10 ` David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 19/20] net/ipv6: Flip FIB entries to fib6_info David Ahern
2018-02-25 19:47 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 20/20] net/ipv6: Remove unused code and variables for rt6_info David Ahern
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