From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Magnus Bergroth Subject: Re: iproute2 mpls max labels Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:43:07 +0200 Message-ID: <579125CB.3030201@nordu.net> References: <578A7BF0.2020107@nordu.net> <57911A26.3080203@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Robert Shearman , "ebiederm@xmission.com" To: Roopa Prabhu Return-path: Received: from e-mailfilter02.sunet.se ([192.36.171.202]:48746 "EHLO e-mailfilter02.sunet.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752077AbcGUTnV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:43:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <57911A26.3080203@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Roopa Prabhu > 21 juli 2016 20:53 > I did not realize it is hardcoded to 8 in iproute2. Because kernel has > a hard coded limit of > 2. > I think we need to fix it in a few places: > a) we should move the kernel #define to a uapi header file which > iproute2 can use > b) there has been a general ask to bump the kernel MAX_LABELS from 2 > and I don't see > a problem with it yet. so, we could bump it to 8. > > Were you planning to post patches for one or both of the above ?. > > I can post them too. Let me know. I would be happy if you could post them both as I very new to the kernel development and I'm not entirely sure how to do it in the right way. Kindly Magnus > > Thanks, > Roopa > > > >