[RFC PATCH 4/4] Add a new cache fill API that does a kernel get on each supported family.

Thomas Graf tgraf at suug.ch
Wed Nov 7 11:30:35 EST 2012


On 11/05/12 at 05:39am, roopa at cumulusnetworks.com wrote:
> From: roopa <roopa at cumulusnetworks.com>
> 
> The current cache fill API does a get on AF_UNSPEC family.
> And a kernel get on AF_UNSPEC family for neigh does not return AF_BRIDGE
> objects.
> 
> To get objects from all families supported by a cache, this patch adds a
> new kind of cache fill api for use during resync and cache creation times.
> 
> This new refill api, does a refill for each supported family one at a time.
> 
> I have also proposed this change in the context of adding AF_BRIDGE
> support to link cache.

Assuming you will respin these on top of the ITER flag change all
AF_BRIDGE neighbour patches look good.



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