[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] datapath: Make metadata_dst tunnel work in IP_TUNNEL_INFO_BRIDGE mode

[Gregory Rose]

On 10/14/2019 9:51 PM, wenxu wrote:
> 
> On 10/15/2019 5:14 AM, Gregory Rose wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/2019 4:51 PM, Greg Rose wrote:
>>> From: wenxu <wenxu at ucloud.cn>
>>>
>>> Upstream commit:
>>>       commit 18b6f717483a835fb98de9f0df6c724df9324e78
>>>       Author: wenxu <wenxu at ucloud.cn>
>>>       Date:   Thu Mar 28 12:43:23 2019 +0800
>>>
>>>       openvswitch: Make metadata_dst tunnel work in IP_TUNNEL_INFO_BRIDGE mode
>>>
>>>       There is currently no support for the multicast/broadcast aspects
>>>       of VXLAN in ovs. In the datapath flow the tun_dst must specific.
>>>       But in the IP_TUNNEL_INFO_BRIDGE mode the tun_dst can not be specific.
>>>       And the packet can forward through the fdb table of vxlan devcice. In
>>>       this mode the broadcast/multicast packet can be sent through the
>>>       following ways in ovs.
>>>
>>>       ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vxlan -- set in vxlan type=vxlan \
>>>               options:key=1000 options:remote_ip=flow
>>>       ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=LOCAL,dl_dst=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, \
>>>               action=output:vxlan
>>>
>>>       bridge fdb append ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff dev vxlan_sys_4789 dst 172.168.0.1 \
>>>               src_vni 1000 vni 1000 self
>>>       bridge fdb append ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff dev vxlan_sys_4789 dst 172.168.0.2 \
>>>               src_vni 1000 vni 1000 self
>>>
>>>       Signed-off-by: wenxu <wenxu at ucloud.cn>
>>>       Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
>>>       Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>>>
>>> Also fixup case statement in lib/odp-util.c to make the compiler happy.
>>>
>>> Cc: wenxu <wenxu at ucloud.cn>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Wenxu,
>>
>> would you mind giving this patch a review - I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Greg
>>
> Looks good to me!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> wenxu
> 

Maintainers,

I submited these patches back in October 2019 and then never got further
with them.  Since then the patch set is moribund I guess but I'm 
wondering if I should resubmit?

Thanks,

- Greg