Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] ipv6: add new arguments to udp_tunnel6_dst_lookup()

From: David Ahern
Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 - 11:53:55 EST


On 10/20/23 5:55 AM, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> We want to make the function more generic so that it can be used by
> other UDP tunnel implementations such as geneve and vxlan. To do that,
> add the following arguments:
>
> - source and destination UDP port;
> - ifindex of the output interface, needed by vxlan;
> - the tos, because in some cases it is not taken from struct
> ip_tunnel_info (for example, when it's inherited from the inner
> packet);
> - the dst cache, because not all tunnel types (e.g. vxlan) want to
> use the one from struct ip_tunnel_info.
>
> With these parameters, the function no longer needs the full struct
> ip_tunnel_info as argument and we can pass only the relevant part of
> it (struct ip_tunnel_key).
>
> This is similar to what already done for IPv4 in commit 72fc68c6356b
> ("ipv4: add new arguments to udp_tunnel_dst_lookup()").
>
> Suggested-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/bareudp.c | 10 +++++++---
> include/net/udp_tunnel.h | 7 ++++---
> net/ipv6/ip6_udp_tunnel.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>