[ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: When executing actions needs help, use "set" action to set tunnel.

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> Open vSwitch userspace is able to implement some actions that the kernel
> doesn't support, such as modifying ARP fields.  When it does this for a
> tunneled packet, it needs to supply the tunnel information with a "set"
> action, because the Linux kernel datapath throws away tunnel information
> supplied in the OVS_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE metadata argument.
>
> VMware-BZ: #1270110
> Reported-by: Srinivas Neginhal <sneginha at vmware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> CC: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Maybe we also need a log message lower down in the stack showing what
is actually being sent to the kernel in these cases?