On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:43:35PM -0800, Pravin B Shelar wrote: > Following patch adds support for userspace tunneling. Tunneling > needs three more component first is routing table which is configured by > caching kernel routes and second is ARP cache which build automatically > by snooping arp. And third is tunnel protocol table which list all > listening protocols which is populated by vswitchd as tunnel ports > are added. GRE and VXLAN protocol support is added in this patch. > > Tunneling works as follows: > On packet receive vswitchd check if this packet is targeted to tunnel > port. If it is then vswitchd inserts tunnel pop action which pops > header and sends packet to tunnel port. > On packet xmit rather than generating Set tunnel action it generate > tunnel push action which has tunnel header data. datapath can use > tunnel-push action data to generate header for each packet and > forward this packet to output port. Since tunnel-push action > contains most of packet header vswitchd needs to lookup routing > table and arp table to build this action. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> > Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com> > Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com> > - > Fixed according to comments from Jarno and Ben. > Added test cases. > Added documentation.
All my comments from the last round were really minor. I assume (without looking) that you fixed them, so: Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> Thanks a lot for doing all this work! It's a pretty exciting new feature area. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
