[ovs-dev] [PATCHv2 00/20] Conntrack datapath backport.

[Pravin Shelar]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org> wrote:
> From: Joe Stringer <joestringer at nicira.com>
>
> This series backports the support for connection tracking introduced in
> Linux 4.3, allowing the kernel module in the tree to support this feature
> on kernels 3.10 and newer.
>
> This series applies on top of the lwtunnel backport series v7 from Pravin.
> For ease of review, I have made a combined branch available here:
>
> https://github.com/joestringer/openvswitch/tree/submit/ct_backport_v2
>
> v2:
> - Fixed nf_conntrack_ftp module refcount issue
> - Fix template free on backported kernels
> - Fixed build on RHEL7.2 kernels
> - Fixed various compiler warnings
> - Dropped testsuite patches that were applied
> - Rebase
>
> Joe Stringer (20):
>   compat: Backport conntrack zones headers.
>   compat: Backport nf_ct_tmpl_alloc().
>   compat: Backport nf_connlabels_{get,put}().
>   compat: Backport 'dst' functions.
>   compat: Backport prandom_u32_max().
>   compat: Backport dev_recursion_level().
>   compat: Backport ip_skb_dst_mtu().
>   compat: Wrap IPv4 fragmentation.
>   compat: Backport IPv4 reassembly.
>   compat: Backport IPv6 fragmentation.
>   compat: Backport IPv6 reassembly.
>   datapath: Move MASKED* macros to datapath.h
>   datapath: Serialize acts with original netlink len
>   datapath: Add conntrack action
>   datapath: Allow matching on conntrack mark
>   datapath: Allow matching on conntrack label
>   datapath: Allow attaching helpers to ct action
>   datapath: Backport conntrack fixes.
>   datapath: Scrub skb between namespaces
>   FAQ: Document kernel feature support.
>

Thanks for the patch.

This patch set is also really big so it is not possible to review to
in detail in given time. I do not see any problem with the basic
structure of the ip-frag backport so I am fine with it going in.

Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>