Subject: Re: [patch net-next 16/17] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Abort on source-specific routes

From: Ido Schimmel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:36:16 +0300

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:16:19AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/19/17 1:02 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > From: Ido Schimmel <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Without resorting to ACLs, the device performs route lookup solely based
> > on the destination IP address.
> > 
> > In case source-specific routing is needed, an error is returned and the
> > abort mechanism is activated, thus allowing the kernel to take over
> > forwarding decisions.
> > 
> > Instead of aborting, we can trap specific destination prefixes where
> > source-specific routes are present, but this will result in a lot more
> > code that is unlikely to ever be used.
> 
> Do you have a document summarizing these for users?

As you know, we've a Wiki we maintain for the features covered by mlxsw.
Once these patches are applied to net-next I intend to extend it with
IPv6 documentation and mention the above there.

I did a similar thing with inter-VRF routes:
https://github.com/Mellanox/mlxsw/wiki/Virtual-Routing-and-Forwarding-(VRF)#inter-vrf-routing