[ovs-dev] [PATCH 09/10] netdev-vport: Manage ethernet addresses in userspace.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Dec 27 15:50:51 UTC 2012


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>> We've already marked PMTUD as being deprecated and are planning on
>> removing it on master.  At the very least, before we apply this patch
>> we should remove the ability to turn it on from userspace (it's
>> already off by default).  Ideally, we would also fully remove both it
>> and the ability to set MAC addresses through the vport layer since
>> both will be completely dead code.  However, that part doesn't
>> necessarily have to happen before this patch.
>
>
> All of this sounds pretty reasonable.  Do we really want to remove PMTUD
> right now?  According to the code, we're going to wait until February.
> Alternatively, we could drop this patch for now, and reintroduce it when we
> introduce flow based tunneling.  At that time we'll have to solve both
> problems.  I don't feel strongly either way, thoughts?

I think it's fine to remove it now.  If we pull it from master, the
released version will certainly be after February.



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