[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/6] vxlan: Group Policy extension

[Jesse Gross]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> wrote:
> On 01/12/15 at 11:23am, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> wrote:
>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> > index 4d52aa9..b148739 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> > @@ -568,7 +569,8 @@ static struct sk_buff **vxlan_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff
>> >                         continue;
>> >
>> >                 vh2 = (struct vxlanhdr *)(p->data + off_vx);
>> > -               if (vh->vx_vni != vh2->vx_vni) {
>> > +               if (vh->vx_flags != vh2->vx_flags ||
>> > +                   vh->vx_vni != vh2->vx_vni) {
>>
>> It's probably better to do a memcmp over the entire header. There's no
>> guarantee that new fields will be entirely represented by flags.
>
> vx_flags covers the entire first 32 bit of vxlanhdr so it's
> equivalent to a memcmp() already. I can change it to memcmp() if
> you think that's more readable.

I was actually referring to the reserved 8 bit chunk after the VNI.
This could potentially be used for something in the future.