[RFC PATCH 4/4] Add a new cache fill API that does a kernel get on each supported family.
Roopa Prabhu
roopa at cumulusnetworks.com
Thu Nov 8 00:20:13 EST 2012
On 11/7/12 8:30 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 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.
Thanks. Yes, patches in the works, will submit soon.
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