Re: [mpls-linux-devel] Current state of dst stacking on davem implementation

[Ramon C. <cas...@in...>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, James R. Leu wrote:

> Here is the guts of my suggestion.  Let me know what you guys think.

Well, we have discussed this before, so you know my position :)


> 
> > I have created a seperate branch off of 'mpls-kernel-davem' called
> > 'mpls-kernel-merger'.  It is where we can submit changes.  Every once in a
> > while we can look at the diff between 'mpls-kernel-davem' and
> > 'mpls-kernel-merger' and decide what gets propogated to 'mpls-kernel-davem'.

Ok. I'm having disk space problems with my laptop given your p4 trees :) 4 
kernels makes it 1Gb+ ;)


> > -I will submit the dst stacking code.

> > -rename all structures to proper names
> >     s/mpls_nhlfe_route/mpls_nhlfe/
> >     s/ltable/mpls_ilm/

agreed. 

> > -add instruction list to ILM and NHLFE

agreed. 


> > -move NHLFE label and nexthop to instructions
> > -move ILM -> NHLFE connection to instructions

ok. Shall I undersand the existence of a FWD instruction that allows NHLFE 
stacking ?


> > -modify netlink to better take advantage of the new structure
yep. I am thinking of porting RSVP-TE then, but it is a dauting task. I 
will talk to some people see if they are interested.



> > 
> > I was planning to take much of the code from our implementation and
> > modify it to work in the DaveM code.

Well, that's the goal of two devel/stable branches. The point is 
submitting incremental patches, so the big guys at netdev can eventually 
review them... 


Regards,
R.