From: Magnus Bergroth <bergroth@nordu.net>
To: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>,
"ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: iproute2 mpls max labels
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:43:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <579125CB.3030201@nordu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57911A26.3080203@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Roopa Prabhu <mailto:roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> 21 juli 2016 20:53
> I did not realize it is hardcoded to 8 in iproute2. Because kernel has
> a hard coded limit of
> 2.
> I think we need to fix it in a few places:
> a) we should move the kernel #define to a uapi header file which
> iproute2 can use
> b) there has been a general ask to bump the kernel MAX_LABELS from 2
> and I don't see
> a problem with it yet. so, we could bump it to 8.
>
> Were you planning to post patches for one or both of the above ?.
>
> I can post them too. Let me know.
I would be happy if you could post them both as I very new to the kernel
development and I'm not entirely sure how to do it in the right way.
Kindly
Magnus
>
> Thanks,
> Roopa
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 18:24 iproute2 mpls max labels Magnus Bergroth
2016-07-21 18:53 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-07-21 19:43 ` Magnus Bergroth [this message]
2016-07-23 23:04 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-07-21 20:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-21 21:08 ` Magnus Bergroth
2016-07-22 19:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-22 6:16 ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-07-22 19:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-23 23:03 ` Roopa Prabhu
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