Re: [PATCH 0/16] Handle redirects just like PMTU

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:45:33 +0200

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 01:10 -0700, David Miller wrote:

quoted

As described in my patch series from the other day, we need to
rearrange redirect handling so that the local initiators of packets
(sockets, tunnels, xfrms, etc.) that implement the protocols compute
the route and pass this down into the ipv4/ipv6 routing code.

These changes here do so by implementing a new dst_ops->redirect
method.

No more do we have this funny code that tries several different sets
of routing keys to try and figure out which route the redirect should
actually be applied to.

No more do we have the problem wherein TOS rewriting causes problems
for us.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Wow, this looks very good.

I did a quick review and found no obvious problem.

Bye bye ip_rt_redirect(), finally ;)

Great.  I'm feeling brave so I'll push this out to net-next after
doing some more build validation.:)