[ovs-dev] [PATCH v9 1/3] userspace: Switching of L3 packets in L2 pipeline

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 04:16:17PM +0000, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
> From: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich at ericsson.com>
> 
> Ports have a new layer3 attribute if they send/receive L3 packets.
> 
> The packet_type included in structs dp_packet and flow is considered in
> ofproto-dpif. The classical L2 match fields (dl_src, dl_dst, dl_type, and
> vlan_tci, vlan_vid, vlan_pcp) now have Ethernet as pre-requisite.
> 
> A dummy ethernet header is pushed to L3 packets received from L3 ports
> before the the pipeline processing starts. The ethernet header is popped
> before sending a packet to a L3 port.
> 
> For datapath ports that can receive L2 or L3 packets, the packet_type
> becomes part of the flow key for datapath flows and is handled
> appropriately in dpif-netdev.

I applied this to master.  Thank you!