[ovs-dev] IEEE 802.1Q in Openvswitch !

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 03:11:07PM +0530, rakesh kumar wrote:
> Thanks Ben,
> 
> 
> *OVS doesn't do anything special with it.  It treats it like any
> otherfield.*
> 
> Could you please elaborate the above mentioned point.
> 
> My intention here was to know how OVS  Queue the traffic(*Packets*) at port
> which are coming from datapath(kernel space), it would really help me if
> you point out the file name in OVS which handles the Queue mechanism .

Queuing in OVS doesn't have anything to do with 802.1Q.

OVS queues packets to userspace via netlink sockets.