From: Yuval Mintz <yuv...@mellanox.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:29:28 +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. Series applied, thank you.
