[ovs-dev] [PATCH 00/20] Update and backport of upstream Linux

Gregory Rose gvrose8192 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 18:32:55 UTC 2018


On 2/2/2018 10:20 AM, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Allow OVS to compile and build on Linux 4.14.x kernels.  Added
>> necessary compatability layer changes to the respective patches
>> as required for our OOT build environment.
>>
>> Note that NSH and ERSPAN patches are not in this series.  We
>> are working with the authors of those patches to get them
>> backported.
>>
>> This series of patches was originally sent as two separate sets
>> however the dependencies and compatability layer requirements
>> made it more convenient to combine the two sets.
>>
>> Andy Zhou (3):
>>    datapath: export get_dp() API
>>    datapath: Add meter netlink definitions
>>    datapath: Add meter infrastructure
>>
>> Arnd Bergmann (1):
>>    datapath: use ktime_get_ts64() instead of ktime_get_ts()
>>
>> Christophe JAILLET (1):
>>    datapath:  Fix an error handling path in
>>      'ovs_nla_init_match_and_action()
>>
>> Florian Westphal (1):
>>    datapath: conntrack: make protocol tracker pointers const
>>
>> Greg Rose (8):
>>    datapath: Fix netdev_master_upper_dev_link for 4.14
>>    compat: Do not include headers when not compiling
>>    datapath: Fix SKB_GSO_UDP usage
>>    acinclude.m4: Enable Linux 4.14
>>    travis: Update kernel test list from kernel.org
>>    compat: Fix compiler headers
>>    compat:inet_frag.h: Check for frag_percpu_counter_batch
>>    Documentation: Update NEWS and faq
>>
>> Gustavo A. R. Silva (2):
>>    datapath: meter: fix NULL pointer dereference in
>>      ovs_meter_cmd_reply_start
>>    datapath: fix data type in queue_gso_packets
>>
>> Jiri Benc (1):
>>    datapath: reliable interface indentification in port dumps
>>
>> Wei Yongjun (2):
>>    datapath: Fix return value check in ovs_meter_cmd_features()
>>    datapath: Using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code
>>
>> zhangliping (1):
>>    datapath: fix the incorrect flow action alloc size
>>
> The patch series looks good. I have few comment on couple of patches.
> About metering and namespace related userspace patches are not in 2.9,
> so can you create two separate series. one with fixes for master ( and
> can be backported  2.9) and second with the features which can be
> targeted for master branch only.
>
> Thanks.

I will do that.  Thanks for the reviews Pravin!!

- Greg


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