[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] tunneling: Allow matching and setting tunnel 'OAM' flag.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:04:54PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:53:57PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> >> Several encapsulation formats have the concept of an 'OAM' bit
> >> which typically is used with networking tracing tools to
> >> distinguish test packets from real traffic. OVS already internally
> >> has support for this, however, it doesn't do anything with it
> >> and it also isn't exposed for controllers to use. This enables
> >> support through OpenFlow.
> >>
> >> There are several other tunnel flags which are consumed internally
> >> by OVS. It's not clear that it makes sense to use them externally
> >> so this does not expose those flags - although it should be easy
> >> to do so if necessary in the future.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
> >
> > "git am" doesn't want to apply this for me:
> >         fatal: patch fragment without header at line 439: @@ -1518,6 +1518,7 @@ OVS_VSWITCHD_START
> >
> > I don't see what it's complaining about, though; maybe it's the
> > extremely long lines.  Either way, though, I can't apply it.
> 
> Hmm, that's weird, I was able to apply it back locally on my system.
> In any case, I push this series to Github as an alternative:
> https://github.com/jessegross/ovs.git oam
> 
> It's the same as the original version that I sent out, just rebased to
> master. I haven't addressed your comments on the first patch yet.

Thanks, got it.  I'll review patch 2 now.