The main driver for the change is the need to improve notification mechanism.
Currently callers guess the operation data based on the rtentry structure
returned in case of successful operation result. There are two problems with
this appoach. First is that it doesn't provide enough information for the
upcoming multipath changes, where rtentry refers to a new nexthop group,
and there is no way of guessing which paths were added during the change.
Second is that some rtentry fields can change during notification and
protecting from it by requiring customers to unlock rtentry is not desired.
Additionally, as the consumers such as rtsock do know which operation they
request in advance, making explicit add/change/del versions of the functions
makes sense, especially given the functions don't share a lot of code.
With that in mind, introduce rib_cmd_info notification structure and
rib_<add|del|change>_route() functions, with mandatory rib_cmd_info pointer.
It will be used in upcoming generalized notifications.
* Move definitions of the new functions and some other functions/structures
used for the routing table manipulation to a separate header file,
net/route/route_ctl.h. net/route.h is a frequently used file included in
~140 places in kernel, and 90% of the users don't need these definitions.
Reviewed by: ae
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25067
The main driver for the change is the need to improve notification mechanism.
Currently callers guess the operation data based on the rtentry structure
returned in case of successful operation result. There are two problems with
this appoach. First is that it doesn't provide enough information for the
upcoming multipath changes, where rtentry refers to a new nexthop group,
and there is no way of guessing which paths were added during the change.
Second is that some rtentry fields can change during notification and
protecting from it by requiring customers to unlock rtentry is not desired.
Additionally, as the consumers such as rtsock do know which operation they
request in advance, making explicit add/change/del versions of the functions
makes sense, especially given the functions don't share a lot of code.
With that in mind, introduce rib_cmd_info notification structure and
rib_<add|del|change>_route() functions, with mandatory rib_cmd_info pointer.
It will be used in upcoming generalized notifications.
* Move definitions of the new functions and some other functions/structures
used for the routing table manipulation to a separate header file,
net/route/route_ctl.h. net/route.h is a frequently used file included in
~140 places in kernel, and 90% of the users don't need these definitions.
Reviewed by: ae
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25067
Nexthop objects implementation, defined in r359823,
introduced sys/net/route directory intended to hold all
routing-related code. Move recently-introduced route_temporal.c and
private route_var.h header there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24597
