On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 09:27:30AM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > On 7/19/17 1:02 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > > Allow user space applications to see which routes are offloaded and > > which aren't by setting the RTNH_F_OFFLOAD flag when dumping them. > > > > To be consistent with IPv4, a multipath route is marked as offloaded if > > one of its nexthops is offloaded. Individual nexthops aren't marked with > > the 'offload' flag. > > It is more user friendly to report the offload per nexthop especially > given the implications. There are already flags per nexthop and those > flags are pushed to userspace so not an API change at all.
I thought about it, but then just decided to be consistent with IPv4. I can send a follow-up patchset that aligns both families to the behavior you requested. Need to teach iproute2 to look for RTNH_F_OFFLOAD in rtnh_flags as well.
