On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from > the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack. > After they go through the internal device, they will again travel > through the IP stack which may get confused by the presence of > existing information in the skb. The problem can be observed > when switching between namespaces. This clears out that information > to avoid problems but deliberately leaves other metadata alone. > This is to provide maximum flexibility in chaining together OVS > and other Linux components. > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>
It was recently discovered that the bug that this patch fixes is causing problems in the real world. Can you please queue this for stable in 3.4/3.5? It's currently in Linus's tree as 7fe99e2d434eafeac0c57b279a77e5de39212636. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
