[ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/5] odp-util: Enable communicating outer tunnel to/from the kernel.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Sep 28 20:55:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:12:22AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Now that both the kernel and userspace can handle information about
> the tunnel outer headers this adds userspace support for communicating
> between the two.  At the moment userspace doesn't know how to do
> anything with the extra information on receive and will only generate
> actions containing tun_id.  However, both sides know how to ignore the
> extra information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

What's your thought about how to handle the "XXX: need flags" bits?
(Or does a later patch address that?  I haven't read ahead.)



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