On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 11:31:59AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Nov 2020 15:30:22 +0200 Ido Schimmel wrote:
> > From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > This patch set adds support for nexthop objects offload with a dummy
> > implementation over netdevsim. mlxsw support will be added later.
> > 
> > The general idea is very similar to route offload in that notifications
> > are sent whenever nexthop objects are changed. A listener can veto the
> > change and the error will be communicated to user space with extack.
> > 
> > To keep listeners as simple as possible, they not only receive
> > notifications for the nexthop object that is changed, but also for all
> > the other objects affected by this change. For example, when a single
> > nexthop is replaced, a replace notification is sent for the single
> > nexthop, but also for all the nexthop groups this nexthop is member in.
> > This relieves listeners from the need to track such dependencies.
> > 
> > To simplify things further for listeners, the notification info does not
> > contain the raw nexthop data structures (e.g., 'struct nexthop'), but
> > less complex data structures into which the raw data structures are
> > parsed into.
> 
> Applied, thank you!

Great, thank you. And thanks David for the awesome work on the nexthop
infrastructure.

> 
> BTW no need to follow up on my else-after-return comment, 
> just something to keep in mind.

Ack

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