From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland•com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks•com>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>,
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nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com, ddutt@cumulusnetworks•com,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
hadi@mojatatu•com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
svaidya@brocade•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] net: Use VRF device index for socket lookups
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:39:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C26686.3010702@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S35mAcKe5caMz-jiq9oy2M0e2c-kfKeCNb=f5A4j_Ct1=A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Tom:
On 8/5/15 12:32 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:14 AM, David Ahern<dsa@cumulusnetworks•com> wrote:
>> >The intent of the VRF device is to leverage the existing SO_BINDTODEVICE
>> >as a means of creating L3 domains. Since sockets are expected to be bound
>> >to the VRF device the index of the master device needs to be used for
>> >socket lookups.
>> >
> This patch set seems awfully invasive at the socket layer. Isn't there
> anyway this functionality be contained in the routing layer and
> sockets use existing API?
This patch is a leftover from earlier versions. It is no longer needed.
Will drop for v5.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-05 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 17:14 [PATCH net-next 00/10] VRF-lite - v4 David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 01/10] net: Introduce VRF related flags and helpers David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 02/10] net: Use VRF device index for lookups on RX David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 03/10] net: Use VRF device index for lookups on TX David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 04/10] udp: Handle VRF device David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 05/10] net: Add inet_addr lookup by table David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 06/10] net: Fix up inet_addr_type checks David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 07/10] net: Add routes to the table associated with the device David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 08/10] net: Use passed in table for nexthop lookups David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 09/10] net: Use VRF device index for socket lookups David Ahern
2015-08-05 18:32 ` Tom Herbert
2015-08-05 19:39 ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH 10/10] net: Introduce VRF device driver David Ahern
2015-08-05 17:14 ` [PATCH] iproute2: Add support for VRF device David Ahern
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