From: Yuval Mintz <yuv...@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:58:17 +0200
> Historically ip6mr was based [cut-n-paste] on ipmr and the two have not
> diverged too much. Apparently as ipv4 multicast routing is more common
> than its ipv6 brethren modifications since then are mostly one-way,
> affecting ipmr while leaving ip6mr unchanged.
>
> This series is meant to re-factor both ipmr and ip6mr into having common
> structures [and some functionality], adding 2 new common files -
> mroute_base.h and ipmr_base.c.
>
> The series begins by bringing ip6mr up to speed to some of the changes
> applied in the past to ipmr [#2, #3].
> It is then possible to re-factor a lot of the common structures -
> vif devices [#1], mr_table [#4] mfc_cache [#6], and use the common
> structures in both ipmr and ip6mr.
>
> The rest of the patches re-factor some choice flows used by both ipmr
> and ip6mr and eliminates duplicity.
>
> This series would later allow for easy extension of ipmr offloading
> to support ip6mr offloading as well, as almost all structures
> related to the offloading would be shared between the two protocols.
>
> Changes from previous versions
> ------------------------------
> RFC -> v1:
> - Corrected support for CONFIG_IP{,V6}_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
> - Addressed a couple of kbuild test robot issues
Please address Nikolay's feedback on patch #7, but otherwise this
series looks fantastic, nice work!
