On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: >> This patch builds on the first two patches which Simon Horman sent out in >> May to move Open vSwitch towards flow-based tunneling. This patch simply >> adds a tun_key, deprecating the tun_id member of the ovs_skb_cb struct. >> This patch retains compatibilty with existing tunneling, but once the >> userspace code is submitted, this will be deprecated. > > Hi Kyle, > > Can you elaborate a little more about the relationship of this patch > to Simon's? I'm guessing that it's basically the first patch from his > series with some modifications but I'm not quite sure. > Yes, it's basically Simon's first two patches, with some slight tweaks as it was ported forward, and I put back the ability to configure tunnels using the legacy method for now. My thinking is, if we start with this one, we can then iterate over the other ones and get the whole series in.
> Also, as far as all of the tunneling work that we had discussed before > goes, I'm still very much in favor of it. I'm certainly not > intentionally ignoring Simon's series, I've just been bogged down in > other things and the fact that you guys have been so patient makes it > too easy to keep pushing it back. I think I should have more time > soon though. Cool! I talked with Simon offline last week and he was also in agreement, but given his other commitments, he said I should proceed with the patches for now. Thanks, Kyle _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
