On 2/11/25 9:36 AM, Felix Huettner via dev wrote:
> northd allows us to announce host routes instead of connected routes of
> LRs.
> 
> For the host routes we also know the LSP that host the address.
> We can then check if this LSP is pointing to a LRP that is also local to
> the current chassis, so if a LR is chained behind an LR and both use
> chassisredirect ports.
> In this case we can announce the route with a more preferable priority
> than otherwise.
> 
> This helps in the following case:
> * the backend router is bound on only a single chassis
> * the frontend router is bound to multiple chassis (with multiple LRPs)
> * one of the chassis of the frontend router matches the backend router
> 
> In this case it would be preferable if the network fabric sends the
> traffic to the chassis that hosts both the frontend and backend router.
> Other chassis would work as well, but then OVN would redirect the
> traffic from one chassis to the other.
> So this allows us to skip tunneling traffic in one case.
> 
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Huettner <[email protected]>
> ---

Applied to main, thanks!

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