Subject: Re: switchdev fib offload issues

From: David Ahern <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:11:26 -0600

On 4/18/16 10:38 AM, Ilan Tayari wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> One general thought comes to mind, regardless of your proposed solutions:
>
> You'll need to take care to propagate the error properly in case of routes created by the kernel, such as local routes.
> Local routes are created when an IP address is added to an interface, so in such a case would the whole add-ip-address operation be rolled back cleanly?

local routes are added on an 'admin up' too which is completely 
disconnected from adding the address to the interface.