Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4/fib: send RTM_DELROUTE notify when flush fib

David Ahern
2023-08-08T01:44:39Z

On 8/2/23 3:10 AM, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-07-28 at 09:42 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 7/28/23 7:01 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>
>>> Managing a cache with this is not so obvious 😉
>>
>>
>> FRR works well with Linux at this point,
>
> Interesting. Do you have a bit more information?
>
>> and libnl's caching was updated
>> ad fixed by folks from Cumulus Networks so it should be a good too.
>
>
> Which "libnl" do you mean?

yes. https://github.com/thom311/libnl.git

>
> Route caching in libnl3 upstream is very broken (which I am to blame
> for, as I am the maintainer).
>

as someone who sent in patches it worked for all of Cumulus' uses cases
around 2018-2019 time frame. Can't speak for the status today.