[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v3] [RFC] tunnelling: stt: Prototype Implementation

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Apr 19 06:58:43 UTC 2012


[ Reply to add subject,
  I apologise for that not being there the first time around ]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:50:02PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> This series contains a prototype implementation of STT for Open vSwitch.
> 
> This series consists of two patches:
> 
> * datapath: tunneling: Push vlan_set_tci() call into protocol handlers
> 
>   This allows tunneling protocols to set the VLAN TCI to a non-zero
>   value and will be used by the implementation of STT.
> 
> * tunnelling: stt: Prototype Implementation
> 
>   This patch implements STT, its changelog includes some commentary about
>   the state of the implementation. Review would be greatly appreciated - I
>   am sure there is ample room for improvement.
> 
>   The implementation is based on the information available at
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davie-stt-01
> 
>   Changes since the previous posting (v2) are noted in the patch's changelog.
>   Primarily bug fixing and exercising previously unexercised code paths.
> 
> Further work:
> 
>   It seems to me that some changes are needed to the tunneling core code,
>   in particular handle_offloads(), to allow GSO skbs to be passed
>   unsegmented to STT. Perhaps a new mutable->flags flag is in order?
> 



More information about the dev mailing list