On 16.06.2016 21:23, Alexander Duyck wrote: > The fact is VXLAN with Generic Protocol Extensions cannot be supported by > the same hardware parsers that support VXLAN. The protocol extensions > allow for things like a Next Protocol field which in turn allows for things > other than Ethernet to be passed over the tunnel. Most existing parsers > will not know how to interpret this. > > To resolve this I am giving VXLAN-GPE its own UDP encapsulation offload > type. This way hardware that does support GPE can simply add this type to > the switch statement for VXLAN, and if they don't support it then this will > fix any issues where headers might be interpreted incorrectly. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <adu...@mirantis.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
