[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] create tunnel devices using rtnetlink interface

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at redhat.com
Wed Jun 22 15:47:37 UTC 2016


This series adds support for the creation of tunnels using the rtnetlink
interface. This will open the possibility for new features and flags on those
vports without the need to change vport compatibility code.

Support for STT and LISP have not been added because these are not upstream yet,
so we don't know how the interface will be like upstream. And there are no
features in the current drivers right now we could make use of.

v2:

We are able to set the MTU to UINT16_MAX since it is not restricted by the
driver during newlink.

v3:

Prefer to get type from vport before checking if device is opened. Also, disable
IFLA_VXLAN_LEARNING as it's not enabled on compat vports as well.


Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (5):
  netdev: get device type from vport prefix if it uses one
  dpif-netlink: break out code to add compat and non-compat vports
  dpif-netlink: add VXLAN creation support
  dpif-netlink: add GRE creation support
  dpif-netlink: add GENEVE creation support

 lib/dpif-netlink.c | 527 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 lib/netdev.c       |  26 ++-
 2 files changed, 500 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

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