Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 08/10] ipv6: Do not use inetpeer when creating RTF_CACHE route for /128 via gateway entry

From: Steffen Klassert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:06:32 +0200

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 06:59:34PM -0700, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> When there is a pmtu exception on /128 via gateway route, we need to
> create a separate metrics copy for the newly created RTF_CACHE route instead
> of reusing the inetpeer cache.

Maybe we should remove the caching of the metrics on the inetpeer
completely. After your patchset only static hostroutes using this,
and this is exactly the case where it is buggy. If a second route
to the same host is added, the metrics of the first will be
overwritten.