[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] datapath: Use kernel Geneve implementation on 4.0 and above.

[Simon Horman]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> When Geneve was originally backported, it wasn't available as part
> of a released kernel version but it is now, so we can take advantage
> of the native implementation.
> 
> Note that Geneve was actually first available as part of the 3.18
> kernel release but some drivers erroreously try to offload it as
> if it were VXLAN, which was fixed in the 4.0 release. Since our
> UDP tunnel compat layer already takes care of this, we continue
> using the OVS Geneve implementation until 4.0.
> 
> Reported-by: Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>