[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 4/9] datapath: Account for "vxlan: Refactor vxlan driver to make use of the common UDP tunnel functions."

[Thomas Graf]

On 02/20/15 at 10:50am, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Upstream commit:
>     vxlan: Refactor vxlan driver to make use of the common UDP tunnel functions.
> 
>     Simplify vxlan implementation using common UDP tunnel APIs.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou at nicira.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> 
> Using the upstream functions where available also has the side effect
> of ensuring that we can use hardware offloads. The GBP changes forced
> the use of the OVS emulated GSO path on kernels that lack GBP. This
> resulted in the loss of VXLAN offload on earlier kernels. This restores
> the offload support (for both GBP and non-GBP VXLAN).
> 
> Upstream: acbf74a7 ("vxlan: Refactor vxlan driver to make use of the common UDP tunnel functions.")
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>