[ovs-dev] enable OF1.1-OF1.3 by default?
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Tue Apr 29 16:58:13 UTC 2014
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:48:49PM -0400, Thomas F Herbert wrote:
> On 4/29/2014 10:53 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >Looking through OPENFLOW-1.1+, Open vSwitch is missing only one feature
> >that is required for OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3, which is:
> >
> > * VLANs tagged with 88a8 Ethertype. This requires kernel work for
> > reasonable performance.
> > [required for OF1.1+]
> Ben, by "requires kernel work" do you mean "requires OVS linux
> datapath work" or do you mean "requires upstream kernel work?"
At least the former. VLANs always seem to cause inordinate amounts of
trouble, though, so I really don't know whether the latter would come
into play.
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