[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/6] vxlan: Add VXLAN support to flow based tunneling

[Kyle Mestery (kmestery)]

On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmestery at cisco.com>
 wrote:
> With the recent flow based tunneling changes, VXLAN support was broken. These
> patches address this by enabling VXLAN to work as it did before flow based
> tunneling was pushed upstream.
> 
> Kyle Mestery (6):
>  Modify netdev_vport_get_dpif_port() to return a name for VXLAN ports
>    which     includes the destination UDP port number as a part of the
>    name.
>  Modify dpif_linux_port_add() to set the destination port for VXLAN
>    ports.
>  Add utility functions to the simap structure. These are used by future
>    patches     in this seris. The functions added are.
>  Move dpif_backer->tnl_backers from a "struct sset" to a "struct
>    simap".     Store odp_port in the new map.  This will make it easier
>    to access the     odp_port for future patches.
>  In tnl_set_config(), when determining if a tunnel port already exists,
>    make     sure to also check the destination port. For VXLAN, this
>    can be different     and allows multiple VXLAN ports in the datapath
>    to be created.
>  Garbage collect tnl_backers during type_run(). Add new tnl_backers if
>    a VXLAN     ports UDP port changes.
> 
> datapath/tunnel.c      |  18 ++++++-
> lib/dpif-linux.c       |  11 ++++


I should note, these patches enable basic VXLAN support with flow
based tunneling. Thanks to Ethan for helping with these, I appreciate
his guidance! I'm still chasing a few other things down, but these
patches are stable now.

Things left to do:

1) Add unit tests for VXLAN.
2) Figure out why when using multiple VXLAN ports traffic stops.
3) Changing a dst_port causes traffic in the data path over a VXLAN
    port to stop.

I'm looking at these now and will send new patches once I address them.

Thanks,
Kyle