On 3 December 2015 at 08:10, Jesse Gross <je...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote: > > On 1 December 2015 at 19:04, Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > >> Following patch adds support for lwtunnel to OVS datapath. > >> With this change OVS datapath detect lwtunnel support and > >> make use of new APIs if available. On older kernel where the > >> support is not there the backported tunnel modules are used. > >> These backported tunnel devices acts as lwtunnel devices. > >> I tried to keep backported module same as upstream for easier > >> bug-fix backport. Since STT and LISP are not upstream OVS > >> always needs to use respective modules from tunnel compat layer. > >> To make it work on kernel 4.3 I have converted STT and LISP > >> modules to lwtunnel API model. > >> > >> lwtunnel make use of skb-dst to pass tunnel information to the > >> tunnel module. On older kernel this is not possible. So the in > >> case of old kernel metadata ref is stored in OVS_CB and direct > >> call to tunnel transmit function is made by respective tunnel > >> vport modules. Similarly on receive side tunnel recv directly > >> call netdev-vport-receive to pass the skb to OVS. > >> > >> Major backported components include: > >> Geneve, GRE, VXLAN, ip_tunnel, udp-tunnels GRO. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> > >> > > > > My testing of this seems pretty positive - haven't hit any particular > > issues (although I've only tested fairly lightly with vxlan tunnels). > > Travis reports a minor warning with STT on newer (4.1,4.2) kernels, and > > what looks like a trivial warning on 3.10 (also stt). I don't consider > > these particularly strong reasons to block merging for now. This will get > > further testing during the branch-2.5 testing phase. > > What are the warnings? If they are minor we might as well just fix them. >
Fair enough. I just launched another travis run here, Pravin could you look through these warnings? You'll need to click on each job and check the output. https://travis-ci.org/joestringer/openvswitch/builds/94699548 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
