[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 00/22] Conntrack enhancements.

[Joe Stringer]

On 28 February 2017 at 17:17, Jarno Rajahalme <jarno at ovn.org> wrote:
> This patch set backports the recent upstream conntrack fixes and new
> features to the OVS tree kernel module, and adds the OVS userspace
> support.
>
> Patch 1/22 is an unrelated datapath backport, and patch 22/22 allows
> compiling against Linux 4.10.
>
> Each new feature is introduced in two different commits, the first is
> the datapath backport, the second the corresponding userspace datapath
> and non-datapath functionality, including OVS system tests.  In one
> instance I have squashed the system test with the datapath backport.
> Compile would fail after the first patch due to missing userspace code
> for new enums.  We may decide to squash the datapath and userspace
> changes together for the merge, but for now the review should be more
> straightforward with the separation.
>
> System tests have been most recently run on Linux 3.16, on which the
> geneve tests fail, but that should have nothing to do with this
> series.

Hmm, I think that the new kernel module tests will all fail against
upstream kernels for any released version to date.

I've reviewed all of the kernel backports, apart from the minor things
I've commented on they all look fine. They'll probably need a rebase
after the recent backports were pushed into master.

There are a few missing backports, I sent a series:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-March/329288.html

I'm still working through the userspace changes.