[ovs-dev] [PATCH 13/13] Upstream VXLAN: Use UDP Tunnel segmention.

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Fri Nov 30 04:29:04 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger at vyatta.com>wrote:

> Thanks for cleaning up the tunnel infrastructure, it is long over due.
> Shouldn't this go to the upstream mailing list (netdev at vger.kernel.org)
> instead
> of being on the OVS mailing list? If you get it submitted right now it
> could make
> it in for the 3.8 merge window.
>
> Thanks.
I wanted to get initial review done on ovs-dev then will post it to netdev.


> There are also the IPv6 tunnels that need the same common code. They are
> just
> as bloated. I remember an earlier attempt at the common code, you might
> want
> to compare with it.
>
> Yes, I am planning at looking at ipv6.


> A somewhat related issue is that operational state on tunnels is not fully
> implemented. I had an earlier patch:
>   http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/226948
> but the linear search of tunnels on device caused it to be rejected.
> Having a common hash list from ifindex back in the tunnel common code
> would make this easier and faster.
>

 thanks for ref.

--Pravin.
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