On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:
> This series backports much of the UDP tunnel infrastructure, ultimately
> in support of syncing Geneve with upstream and providing outer UDP
> checksum support.
>
> During the backporting process, I realized that there are several
> other lurking bugs that were fixed through a more complete UDP
> tunnel layer. The ones that I am aware of are:
>  * VXLAN TSO fails in some cases because the OVS handle_offload()
>    function is used with the upstream GSO handler.
>  * Hardware VXLAN offload was disabled on kernels that is otherwise
>    supported on since version checks were incremented by the GBP changes.
>  * LISP attempts to use hardware offload with NICs that only support
>    VXLAN
>
> Jesse Gross (14):
>   datapath: Remove compat vxlan_src_port().
>   datapath: Account for "udp: Add udp_sock_create for UDP tunnels to
>     open listener socket"
>   datapath: Account for "vxlan: Call udp_sock_create"
>   datapath: Use udp_sock_create() for LISP.
>   datapath: Account for "udp: Generic functions to set checksum"
>   datapath: Enable OVS GSO to be used up to 3.18 if necessary.
>   datapath: Account for "udp-tunnel: Add a few more UDP tunnel APIs"
>   datapath: Consistently set skb->inner_protocol for tunnels.
>   datapath: Account for "vxlan: Refactor vxlan driver to make use of the
>     common UDP tunnel functions."
>   datapath: Use additional common UDP functions for LISP.
>   datapath: Account for "vlan: introduce *vlan_hwaccel_push_inside
>     helpers"
>   datapath: Account for "udp: Do not require sock in
>     udp_tunnel_xmit_skb"
>   datapath: Backport upstream Geneve implementation.
>   datapath: Account for "openvswitch: Add support for checksums on UDP
>     tunnels."
>

I have not finished review yet, but wanted to let you know that this
series does not compile on 3.12, 3.17, so that you can fix it in
parallel.
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