[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Enable vlan offload on internal devices.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Wed Mar 9 16:12:23 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> Although it is generally best to configure vlans directly though
> Open vSwitch, enabling vlan acceleration on internal devices can
> avoid some issues and hardware limitations if Linux vlan devices
> are used.  It is only used on kernels that support modern vlan
> data structures: 2.6.27 for the actual acceleration and 2.6.37
> for dynamic configuration.

Since sending this out I decided to make a few changes so there will
be a version 2 coming in a bit.



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