On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Pravin Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
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