On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 01:39:19PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 02/20/15 at 06:23pm, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > VXLAN vs. Geneve are pretty much the same for the basic feature set
> > including hardware offload and ECMP. Obviously Geneve gives you more
> > space and choice for future extensibility. It's not quite ubiquitous
> > yet but the next release of Ubuntu will have kernel support out of the
> > box and expanded OVS userspace support should hopefully be fleshed out
> > more shortly, so I think all of that is OK for the OVN timeline.
> > 
> > But you already knew what I was going to say, right? :)
> 
> Not opposed to Geneve but I'd argue that Geneve is still lacking a bit
> offload availability wise compared to VXLAN. It seems like this should
> be a operator policy decision anyway.

It's definitely an operator policy decision.  We're only discussing the
default here.
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