On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 02:57:00PM +0800, Wenzhuo Lu wrote: > Add functions to support l2 tunnel configuration. > The support includes ether type modification and the tunnel support > enabling/disabling. > Ether type modification means modifying the ether type of a specific > type of tunnel. So the packet with this ether type will be parsed as > this type of tunnel. > Enabling/disabling a tunnel support means enabling/disabling the > ability of parsing the specific type of tunnel. This ability should > be enabled before we enable filtering, forwarding, offloading for > this specific type of tunnel. > Only support e-tag tunnel now. > > E-tag introduction, > E-tag means external tag which is defined in IEEEE 802.1BR > specification. > E-tag is a kind of l2 tunnel. It means a tag will be inserted in the > l2 header. Like below, > |31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0| > 0| Destination MAC address | > 4| Dest MAC address(cont.) | Src MAC address | > 8| Source MAC address(cont.) | > 12| E-tag Etherenet type (0x893f) | E-tag header | > 16| E-tag header(cont.) | > 20| VLAN Ethertype(optional) | VLAN header(optional) | > 24| Original type | ...... | > ...| ...... | > The E-tag format is like below, > |0 15|16 18|19 |20 31| > | Ethertype - 0x893f | E-PCP |DEI| Ingress E-CID_base | > > |32 33|34 35|36 47|48 55 |56 63| > | RSV | GRP |E-CID_base|Ingress_E-CID_ext| E-CID_ext | > > The Ingess_E-CID_ext and E-CID_ext are always zero for endpoints > and are effectively reserved. > > The more details of E-tag is in IEEE 802.1BR. 802.1BR is used to > replace 802.1Qbh. 802.1BR is a standard for Bridge Port Extension. > It specifies the operation of Bridge Port Extenders, including > management, protocols, and algorithms. Bridge Port Extenders > operate in support of the MAC Service by Extended Bridges. > The E-tag is added to l2 header to identify the VM channel and > the virtual port. > > Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>
Your introduction to e-tag needs to be in patch 1 rather than 2, and in the cover letter, since both those earlier mails reference it. Furthermore, it would be better if you could link to a web description of the e-tag rather than try and explain it all in a commit message. Diagrams also work better on a web-page. /Bruce
