On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote: >> Kernel 4.3 is not released yet, but we need this to support >> netdev based vport in out of tree ovs module. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> > > Just so that we're clear, this patch is an intermediate step so that > it's easier to do incremental development of the rest of the > backports, right? In particular, I assume that we'd want to stop using > the compat code for tunnels on 4.3 and use net devices? >
This is first step towards full 4.3 backport. > And of course there are plenty of things that were added to OVS in 4.3 > upstream in addition to this. > > I understand that why we need to re-enable the various protocol > modules now but is it possible to avoid all of the supporting code? It > seems like we should be able to continue using the upstream > implementations of GSO, socket registration, etc. I was thinking using compat version on 4.3 for this case. since this code will be only used when using vswitchd which creates tunnel vport using ovs-vports rather than tunnel netdev. I am planing on changing vswitchd so that it creates netdevs for tunnel vport. So soon this code will be compat code. So to keep things simple I decided to go this way. But if you want I can change the patch to use kernel tunnel netdevice for ovs-tunnel-vport implementation. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
