On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:32:06PM +0000, Sorin Vinturis wrote:
> In a hybrid forwarding environment, there are two types of packets that
> enter and leave the Hyper-V extensible switch: NVGRE packets and non-NVGRE
> packets. Hybrid forwarding involves filtering the incoming traffic based
> on packet type.
> 
> Thus, we must split the incoming traffic into NVGRE and non-NVGRE packets.
> All non-NVGRE traffic is forwarded by the OVS extension and processed as
> usual, and the NVGRE traffic is passed to NDIS to be handled by the HNV
> module.
> 
> Necessary VS project changes regarding the compiler settings will be made
> in a different patch.
> 
> More details about hybrid forwarding and the necessary NDIS 6.40 support
> is provided in issue #52.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sorin Vinturis <svintu...@cloudbasesolutions.com>
> Reported-by: Nithin Raju <nit...@vmware.com>
> Reported-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/52
> Acked-by: Nithin Raju <nit...@vmware.com>

Applied, thanks!
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