From 43b9e127406079d187794a5140a2411fbc6df2df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:28:27 +0300 Subject: net: ipmr/ip6mr: add support for keeping an entry age In preparation for hardware offloading of ipmr/ip6mr we need an interface that allows to check (and later update) the age of entries. Relying on stats alone can show activity but not actual age of the entry, furthermore when there're tens of thousands of entries a lot of the hardware implementations only support "hit" bits which are cleared on read to denote that the entry was active and shouldn't be aged out, these can then be naturally translated into age timestamp and will be compatible with the software forwarding age. Using a lastuse entry doesn't affect performance because the members in that cache line are written to along with the age. Since all new users are encouraged to use ipmr via netlink, this is exported via the RTA_EXPIRES attribute. Also do a minor local variable declaration style adjustment - arrange them longest to shortest. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov CC: Roopa Prabhu CC: Shrijeet Mukherjee CC: Satish Ashok CC: Donald Sharp CC: David S. Miller CC: Alexey Kuznetsov CC: James Morris CC: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI CC: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/mroute.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mroute.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mroute.h b/include/linux/mroute.h index bf9b322cb0b0..d351fd3e1049 100644 --- a/include/linux/mroute.h +++ b/include/linux/mroute.h @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct mfc_cache { unsigned long bytes; unsigned long pkt; unsigned long wrong_if; + unsigned long lastuse; unsigned char ttls[MAXVIFS]; /* TTL thresholds */ } res; } mfc_un; -- cgit v1.2.3