[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Factor out common UDP tunnel handling code.

Rajahalme, Jarno (NSN - FI/Espoo) jarno.rajahalme at nsn.com
Wed May 8 04:47:53 UTC 2013


On May 7, 2013, at 21:55 , ext Pravin Shelar wrote:

> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jarno Rajahalme
> <jarno.rajahalme at nsn.com> wrote:
>> This reduces repeated code and makes it easier to add new UDP tunneling
>> protocols.
>> 
> This approach is different from what tunnel upstream patches does.
> Since there is no lisp support in kernel, this patch will make ovs out
> of tree tunneling diverge significantly from upstream ovs tunneling.
> Basically we want to factor out common between upstream vxlan and ovs
> vxlan and keep similar code in out of tree kernel with old kernel
> compatibility code. In future do same with upstream lisp.
> 
> I will send out upstream patches soon.
> 

Somehow I forgot about your tunnel upstream patches, sorry for that.

  Jarno




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