On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:
> This series implements support for Geneve
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00) in OVS.
>
> It has two caveats:
>  * It is not integrated with upstream yet. The intention is to
>    upstream this but it requires some refactoring of the UDP tunnel
>    layer to avoid code duplication, which Andy Zhou is currently
>    working on. For the time being, this is structured as a purely
>    out-of-tree protocol and has redundant code with other protocol
>    of this type (LISP). I expect that this will be addressed by the
>    time code review is complete on the other portions.
>
>  * Userspace does not fully take advantage of all the features of
>    Geneve, particularly options. However, the kernel is fully
>    flexible and can support even unknown options. Additional
>    capabilities are planned to be added shortly but this provides
>    a solid starting point.

I have pushed the rest of this series to master - thanks to Thomas and
Pravin for reviewing. This will be submitted upstream shortly but we
decided that this was the best way to stage it.
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