Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Allow non-gateway ECMP for IPv6

From: Ido Schimmel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 16:20:48 +0300

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 08:59:10PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 4/30/18 3:15 PM, Thomas Winter wrote:
> > It is valid to have static routes where the nexthop
> > is an interface not an address such as tunnels.
> > For IPv4 it was possible to use ECMP on these routes
> > but not for IPv6.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Winter <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: David Ahern <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  include/net/ip6_route.h | 3 +--
> >  net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c      | 3 ---
> >  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Interesting. Existing code inserts the dev nexthop as a separate route.
> 
> Change looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: David Ahern <[email-masked]>

Thanks for the Cc, David. I'll need to adjust mlxsw to support this.
Specifically, mlxsw_sp_fib6_rt_can_mp().

BTW, I hit this bug while looking into this:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/907050/