ipv4: Cache output routes in fib_info nexthops.

If we have an output route that lacks nexthop exceptions, we can cache
it in the FIB info nexthop.

Such routes will have DST_HOST cleared because such routes refer to a
family of destinations, rather than just one.

The sequence of the handling of exceptions during route lookup is
adjusted to make the logic work properly.

Before we allocate the route, we lookup the exception.

Then we know if we will cache this route or not, and therefore whether
DST_HOST should be set on the allocated route.

Then we use DST_HOST to key off whether we should store the resulting
route, during rt_set_nexthop(), in the FIB nexthop cache.

With help from Eric Dumazet.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ip_fib.h b/include/net/ip_fib.h
index 2daf096dfc60..fb62c590360e 100644
--- a/include/net/ip_fib.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_fib.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct fib_config {
  };
 
 struct fib_info;
+struct rtable;
 
 struct fib_nh_exception {
         struct fib_nh_exception __rcu   *fnhe_next;
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ struct fib_nh {
         __be32                  nh_gw;
         __be32                  nh_saddr;
         int                     nh_saddr_genid;
+        struct rtable           *nh_rth_output;
         struct fnhe_hash_bucket *nh_exceptions;
 };