[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 00/16] port Jiri Benc's L3 patchset to ovs

[Joe Stringer]

On 6 February 2017 at 05:04, Yi Yang <yi.y.yang at intel.com> wrote:
> This patch set just ports Jiri Benc's L3 8 support patches for layer 3 encapsulated packets from net-next to current ovs, it also includes Jiri Benc's 3 userspace patches, Jarno Rajahalme and Pravin Shelar's vlan fix patches for L3 patchset as well as my 3 patches which enabled vxlangpe in compat mode and dpdk netdev in both L2 and L3(layer3=true) mode.
>
> This patchset has been verified on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64 with Linux kernel 3.13.0-24-generic and 4.9.7, it also passed "make check"
> and "sudo make check-kmod RECHECK=yes" in Fedora 23 with kernel
> 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64
>
> This patch set is based on https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-February/328492.html ([PATCH v2 0/4] Backport 802.1ad patches), please merge this one after merging [PATCH v2 0/4] Backport 802.1ad patches.

Thanks for this work! I think that this comprises the majority of the
remaining diff between the backport and the upstream tree, though
there are still a bunch of other unrelated changes that are still
missing.

As we discussed earlier, it'd be good to ensure that we don't miss any
of the small patches as well; to avoid this, my expectation would be
that we can apply backports of all of the missing patches from
net-next in the order they were applied to net-next. I believe that
Yi-Hung is interested at looking at backporting those other missing
patches up until the 802.1ad changes. From there we can review the
802.1ad backport series you have posted, then continue backporting up
until the L3 tunnelling backport you've proposed.  I'm not really sure
how much work is involved in this at the moment, although I think that
802.1ad and L3 tunnelling were the largest features.