Merge branch 'net-Add-address-attribute-to-control-metric-of-prefix-route'
David Ahern says:
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net: Add address attribute to control metric of prefix route
For use cases such as VRR (Virtual Router Redundancy) interface managers
want efficient control over the order of prefix routes when multiple
interfaces have addresses with overlapping/duplicate subnets.
Currently, if two interfaces have addresses in the same subnet, the order
of the prefix route entries is determined by the order in which the
addresses are assigned or the links brought up. Any actions like cycling
an interface up and down changes that order. This set adds a new attribute
for addresses to allow a user to specify the metric of the prefix route
associated with an address giving interface managers better and more
efficient control of the order of prefix routes.
Patches 1-3 refactor IPv6 address add functions to pass an ifa6_config
struct. The functions currently have a long list of arguments and adding
the metric just makes it worse. Because of the overall diff size in
moving the arguments to a struct, the change is done in stages to make
it easier to review starting with the bottom function and pushing the
struct up to callers in each successive patch.
Patch 4 introduces the new attribute.
Patches 5 and 6 add support for the new attribute to IPv4 and IPv6
addresses.
Patch 7 adds a set of test cases.
Patch 8 adds support to iproute2
Changes since RFC
- collapsed patches 1 and 3 into patch 2
- simplified stack variables in fib_modify_prefix_metric in patch 5
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
