From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
To: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: fib offload: use sensible tos values
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 21:10:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfrXFGKOje6Y7o6G@shredder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e43b343720360a1c0e4f5947d9e917b26f30fbf.1643826556.git.gnault@redhat.com>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 07:30:28PM +0100, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> Although both iproute2 and the kernel accept 1 and 2 as tos values for
> new routes, those are invalid. These values only set ECN bits, which
> are ignored during IPv4 fib lookups. Therefore, no packet can actually
> match such routes. This selftest therefore only succeeds because it
> doesn't verify that the new routes do actually work in practice (it
> just checks if the routes are offloaded or not).
>
> It makes more sense to use tos values that don't conflict with ECN.
> This way, the selftest won't be affected if we later decide to warn or
> even reject invalid tos configurations for new routes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-02 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-02 18:30 [PATCH net-next] selftests: fib offload: use sensible tos values Guillaume Nault
2022-02-02 19:10 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2022-02-02 19:46 ` Shuah Khan
2022-02-02 20:16 ` Guillaume Nault
2022-02-02 21:10 ` Shuah Khan
2022-02-02 23:25 ` Guillaume Nault
2022-02-02 23:29 ` Shuah Khan
2022-02-04 3:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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