diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9375324aa8e1..5cdc37c34830 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1560,6 +1560,18 @@ skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
 	on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
 	Default: false (generate message)
 
+nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN
+	New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of
+	prefixes. Backwards compatibilty with old route format is enabled by
+	default which means route dumps and notifications contain the new
+	nexthop attribute but also the full, expanded nexthop definition.
+	Further, updates or deletes of a nexthop configuration generate route
+	notifications for each fib entry using the nexthop. Once a system
+	understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full
+	performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion
+	and extraneous notifications.
+	Default: true (backward compat mode)
+
 IPv6 Fragmentation:
 
 ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
index 154b8f01499b..5acdb4d414c4 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
 	int sysctl_tcp_early_demux;
 	int sysctl_udp_early_demux;
 
+	int sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode;
+
 	int sysctl_fwmark_reflect;
 	int sysctl_tcp_fwmark_accept;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index c618e242490f..6177c4ba0037 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -1835,6 +1835,7 @@ static __net_init int inet_init_net(struct net *net)
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_ip_early_demux = 1;
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_udp_early_demux = 1;
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_early_demux = 1;
+	net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode = 1;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_ip_prot_sock = PROT_SOCK;
 #endif
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
index 55ca2e521828..e53871e4a097 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
@@ -1780,6 +1780,8 @@ int fib_dump_info(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
 			goto nla_put_failure;
 		if (nexthop_is_blackhole(fi->nh))
 			rtm->rtm_type = RTN_BLACKHOLE;
+		if (!fi->fib_net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode)
+			goto offload;
 	}
 
 	if (nhs == 1) {
@@ -1805,6 +1807,7 @@ int fib_dump_info(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int event,
 			goto nla_put_failure;
 	}
 
+offload:
 	if (fri->offload)
 		rtm->rtm_flags |= RTM_F_OFFLOAD;
 	if (fri->trap)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
index 9999687ad6dc..3957364d556c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
@@ -784,7 +784,8 @@ static void __remove_nexthop_fib(struct net *net, struct nexthop *nh)
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(f6i, tmp, &nh->f6i_list, nh_list) {
 		/* __ip6_del_rt does a release, so do a hold here */
 		fib6_info_hold(f6i);
-		ipv6_stub->ip6_del_rt(net, f6i, false);
+		ipv6_stub->ip6_del_rt(net, f6i,
+				      !net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1041,7 +1042,7 @@ out:
 	if (!rc) {
 		nh_base_seq_inc(net);
 		nexthop_notify(RTM_NEWNEXTHOP, new_nh, &cfg->nlinfo);
-		if (replace_notify)
+		if (replace_notify && net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode)
 			nexthop_replace_notify(net, new_nh, &cfg->nlinfo);
 	}
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 81b267e990a1..95ad71e76cc3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -710,6 +710,15 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
 		.mode           = 0644,
 		.proc_handler   = proc_tcp_early_demux
 	},
+	{
+		.procname       = "nexthop_compat_mode",
+		.data           = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode,
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
+		.mode           = 0644,
+		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
+		.extra2		= SYSCTL_ONE,
+	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "ip_default_ttl",
 		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_ip_default_ttl,
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 486c36a14f24..803212aae4ca 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -5557,7 +5557,8 @@ static int rt6_fill_node(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		if (nexthop_is_blackhole(rt->nh))
 			rtm->rtm_type = RTN_BLACKHOLE;
 
-		if (rt6_fill_node_nexthop(skb, rt->nh, &nh_flags) < 0)
+		if (net->ipv4.sysctl_nexthop_compat_mode &&
+		    rt6_fill_node_nexthop(skb, rt->nh, &nh_flags) < 0)
 			goto nla_put_failure;
 
 		rtm->rtm_flags |= nh_flags;