On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:26:04PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 04:14:47PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> >> Using the kernel vlan acceleration has a number of benefits:
> >> it enables hardware tagging, allows usage of TSO and checksum
> >> offloading, and is generally easier to manipulate. ?This switches
> >> the vlan actions to use skb->vlan_tci field for any necessary
> >> changes. ?In places that do not support vlan acceleration in a way
> >> that we can use (in particular kernels before 2.6.37) we perform
> >> any necessary conversions, such as tagging and GSO before the
> >> packet leaves Open vSwitch.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>
> >
> > I examined the changes in this patch pretty carefully, but I didn't do a
> > big-picture pass over the code to look for places that might have been
> > missed. ?Let me know if you'd like me to do that too.
> 
> I'm not too worried about missed places as there are only a few
> locations where vlan tags matter: ingress, egress, and tag
> manipulations.  So certainly go ahead if you want but I'm not sure
> that it's strictly necessary.

OK, I'm going to skip it then.  All your responses look fine to me.  I
think I gave you this already but just in case:
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>

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