On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote: > Following patch adds support for lwtunnel to OVS datapath. > With this change OVS datapath detect lwtunnel support and > make use of new APIs if available. On older kernel where the > support is not there the backported tunnel modules are used. > These backported tunnel devices acts as lwtunnel devices. > I tried to keep backported module same as upstream for easier > bug-fix backport. Since STT and LISP are not upstream OVS > always needs to use respective modules from tunnel compat layer. > To make it work on kernel 4.3 I have converted STT and LISP > modules to lwtunnel API model. > > lwtunnel make use of skb-dst to pass tunnel information to the > tunnel module. On older kernel this is not possible. So the in > case of old kernel metadata ref is stored in OVS_CB and direct > call to tunnel transmit function is made by respective tunnel > vport modules. Similarly on receive side tunnel recv directly > call netdev-vport-receive to pass the skb to OVS. > > Major backported components include: > Geneve, GRE, VXLAN, ip_tunnel, udp-tunnels GRO. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> I'm sure that there are some lingering issues in there somewhere just because of the size of the patch but I think the structure is good and at this point we are best served by getting the code in. It will be easier then to do testing and apply any incremental patches. This is a really big patch and represents a lot of work. Thanks! _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
