ipv6: introduce per-interface counter for dad-completed ipv6 addresses
To reduce the number of unnecessary router solicitations, MLDv2 and IGMPv3
messages we need to track the number of valid (as in non-optimistic,
no-dad-failed and non-tentative) link-local addresses. Therefore, this
patch implements a valid_ll_addr_cnt in struct inet6_dev.
We now only emit router solicitations if the first link-local address
finishes duplicate address detection.
The changes for MLDv2 and IGMPv3 are in a follow-up patch.
While there, also simplify one if statement(one minor nit I made in one
of my previous patches):
if (!...)
do();
else
return;
<<into>>
if (...)
return;
do();
Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/if_inet6.h b/include/net/if_inet6.h
index e4c5a2d..1628b8f 100644
--- a/include/net/if_inet6.h
+++ b/include/net/if_inet6.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@
struct net_device *dev;
struct list_head addr_list;
+ int valid_ll_addr_cnt;
struct ifmcaddr6 *mc_list;
struct ifmcaddr6 *mc_tomb;