[ovs-discuss] 答复: Re: 答复: Re: vlan dev can't be created by 'ip link add' when use ovs2.5.0

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:04:52PM +0800, zhao.jin2 at zte.com.cn wrote:
> I think VLAN splinters are needed for the buggy network drivers, and i 
> find ixgbe 
> is one among them. suppose network driver is buggy, and VLAN splinters are 
> used 
> on the nics, i think ovs should not deals with those vlan devices which 
> real devices
> are not in ovs bridge, what do you think ? 

VLAN splinters were created to deal with specific bugs in pre-Linux 3.3
drivers.  Those bugs have now been fixed.  If you still see problems,
then you should report those to the NIC driver authors and get them
fixed, because upcoming versions of Open vSwitch will not support VLAN
splinters.