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    nexthop: Add netlink defines and enumerators for resilient NH groups · 710ec562
    Ido Schimmel authored
    - RTM_NEWNEXTHOP et.al. that handle resilient groups will have a new nested
      attribute, NHA_RES_GROUP, whose elements are attributes NHA_RES_GROUP_*.
    
    - RTM_NEWNEXTHOPBUCKET et.al. is a suite of new messages that will
      currently serve only for dumping of individual buckets of resilient next
      hop groups. For nexthop group buckets, these messages will carry a nested
      attribute NHA_RES_BUCKET, whose elements are attributes NHA_RES_BUCKET_*.
    
      There are several reasons why a new suite of messages is created for
      nexthop buckets instead of overloading the information on the existing
      RTM_{NEW,DEL,GET}NEXTHOP messages.
    
      First, a nexthop group can contain a large number of nexthop buckets (4k
      is not unheard of). This imposes limits on the amount of information that
      can be encoded for each nexthop bucket given a netlink message is limited
      to 64k bytes.
    
      Second, while RTM_NEWNEXTHOPBUCKET is only used for notifications at
      this point, in the future it can be extended to provide user space with
      control over nexthop buckets configuration.
    
    - The new group type is NEXTHOP_GRP_TYPE_RES. Note that nexthop code is
      adjusted to bounce groups with that type for now.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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