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When routes that are a part of a multipath route are evaluated by fib6_ifdown() in response to NETDEV_DOWN and NETDEV_UNREGISTER events the state of their sibling routes is not considered. This will change in subsequent patches in order to align IPv6 with IPv4's behavior. For example, when the last sibling in a multipath route becomes dead, the entire multipath route needs to be removed. To prevent the tree walker from re-evaluating all the sibling routes each time, we can simply evaluate them once - when the first sibling is traversed. If we determine the entire multipath route needs to be removed, then the 'should_flush' bit is set in all the siblings, which will cause the walker to flush them when it traverses them. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.