On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:21:52PM +0300, Lorand Jakab wrote: > This series implements support for layer 3 ports, of which we have one example > so far, the LISP vport. LISP support is currently implemented with a hack, by > adding/removing the Ethernet header within the datapath/vport-lisp.c file. By > removing the assumption that all packets/flows have Ethernet header, this > series adds generic support for layer 3 ports in OVS, and thus it is expected > that the user/kernel space API for LISP support will not change. This will > allow the upstreaming of the LISP vport, resulting in a decreased the delta > against the Linux kernel module, which is the goal that started this work. It > will also allow supporting layer 3 GRE tunnels, for which patches have been > proposed based on this work. > > The patch set doesn't change the current behavior when a packet from a LISP > port is sent to a layer 2 port or the other way around, so it's not necessary > to change existing flow rules. The implementation will automatically add the > appropriate pop_eth and push_eth actions to datapath flows. This may change > in > the future when OpenFlow support for these actions will be added, since > discussions on EXT-112 in the ONF showed preference for explicitly requiring > the pop_eth and push_eth actions in OpenFlow rules.
I notice that this series tends to use tabs for indentation in userspace code, whereas it should use spaces. I'm looking at other issues too of course. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
