[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 7/9] datapath: Account for "udp: Do not require sock in udp_tunnel_xmit_skb"

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Fri Feb 20 21:54:03 UTC 2015


On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> Upstream commit:
>     udp: Do not require sock in udp_tunnel_xmit_skb
>
>     The UDP tunnel transmit functions udp_tunnel_xmit_skb and
>     udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb include a socket argument. The socket being
>     passed to the functions (from VXLAN) is a UDP created for receive
>     side. The only thing that the socket is used for in the transmit
>     functions is to get the setting for checksum (enabled or zero).
>     This patch removes the argument and and adds a nocheck argument
>     for checksum setting. This eliminates the unnecessary dependency
>     on a UDP socket for UDP tunnel transmit.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert at google.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>
> Upstream: d998f8ef ("udp: Do not require sock in udp_tunnel_xmit_skb")
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

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



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