On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> wrote: > At the core of this patch set is removing the assumption in Open vSwitch > datapath that all packets have Ethernet header. Support for layer 3 GRE > tunnels is also added by this patchset. > > The implementation relies on the presence of pop_eth and push_eth actions > in datapath flows to facilitate adding and removing Ethernet headers as > appropriate. The construction of such flows is left up to user-space. > > This series is based on work by Simon Horman, Lorand Jakab, Thomas Morin and > others. I kept Lorand's and Simon's s-o-b in the patches that are derived > from v11 to record their authorship of parts of the code. Please let me know > if you disagree with this. > > v12 differs from v11 a lot. The main changes are: > > * The patches were restructured and split differently for easier review. > * They were rebased and adjusted to the current net-next. Especially MPLS > handling is different (and easier) thanks to the recent MPLS GSO rework. > * Several bugs were discovered and fixed. The most notable is fragment > handling: header adjustment for ARPHRD_NONE devices on tx needs to be done > after refragmentation, not before it. This required significant changes in > the patchset. Another one is stricter checking of attributes (match on L2 > vs. L3 packet) at the kernel level. > * Instead of is_layer3 bool, a mac_proto field is used. See patch 2. This is > a matter of taste and alternate approaches are offered in patch 2 > description. > > There is no change to uAPI since v11. The previously posted patchset for > Open vSwitch user space works with this submission unmodified. >
I have not finished the review yet, but most of patches looks good to me. Can you send userspace patches against latest master so that I can try the patches with tunnel setup? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
