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Commit 1274e1cc42 ("vxlan: ecmp support for mac fdb entries") lets a
single inner MAC be reached through a group of remote VTEPs, with the
kernel flow-hashing across the group members. Each member carries its
own remote IP, but the UDP destination port is always taken from the
VXLAN device (vxlan->cfg.dst_port) and cannot be set per member.
Some deployments pack several receivers behind one underlay IP and tell
them apart by UDP port, so they need a per-nexthop destination port to
spread flows across (IP, port) tuples rather than IP alone.
Add a netlink attribute NHA_DST_PORT (__be16, mirroring NDA_PORT) that
carries an optional UDP destination port on an fdb nexthop. It is only
accepted together with NHA_FDB and NHA_GATEWAY; it is stored in struct
nh_info and echoed back on dump. The attribute is named generically
rather than fdb-specific so it can be reused should another nexthop type
ever need a destination port. This patch is control-plane plumbing
only; the VXLAN datapath is wired up in a follow-up patch, so behaviour
is unchanged for now.
Signed-off-by: Jack Ma <jack4it@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724-b4-vxlan-fdb-port-v5-1-cd1c6aeee058@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>