Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: nexthop: Increase weight to u16

[David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>]

On 8/1/24 10:23 AM, Petr Machata wrote:
> In CLOS networks, as link failures occur at various points in the network,
> ECMP weights of the involved nodes are adjusted to compensate. With high
> fan-out of the involved nodes, and overall high number of nodes,
> a (non-)ECMP weight ratio that we would like to configure does not fit into
> 8 bits. Instead of, say, 255:254, we might like to configure something like
> 1000:999. For these deployments, the 8-bit weight may not be enough.
> 
> To that end, in this patchset increase the next hop weight from u8 to u16.
> 
> Patch #1 adds a flag that indicates whether the reserved fields are zeroed.
> This is a follow-up to a new fix merged in commit 6d745cd0e972 ("net:
> nexthop: Initialize all fields in dumped nexthops"). The theory behind this
> patch is that there is a strict ordering between the fields actually being
> zeroed, the kernel declaring that they are, and the kernel repurposing the
> fields. Thus clients can use the flag to tell if it is safe to interpret
> the reserved fields in any way.
> 
> Patch #2 contains the substantial code and the commit message covers the
> details of the changes.
> 
> Patches #3 to #6 add selftests.
> 

LGTM. For the set
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>