[ovs-dev] [PATCH 08/13] datapath: Account for "vxlan: Eliminate dependency on UDP socket in transmit path"

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Tue Feb 3 18:08:38 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com> wrote:
> Excludes VXLAN_F_REMCSUM_TX bits as OVS currently doesn't support it.
>
> Upstream commit:
>     vxlan: Eliminate dependency on UDP socket in transmit path
>
>     In the vxlan transmit path there is no need to reference the socket
>     for a tunnel which is needed for the receive side. We do, however,
>     need the vxlan_dev flags. This patch eliminate references
>     to the socket in the transmit path, and changes VXLAN_F_UNSHAREABLE
>     to be VXLAN_F_RCV_FLAGS. This mask is used to store the flags
>     applicable to receive (GBP, CSUM6_RX, and REMCSUM_RX) in the
>     vxlan_sock flags.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert at google.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>
> Upstream: af33c1adae1e ("vxlan: Eliminate dependency on UDP socket in transmit path")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>

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



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