On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Han Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:

> Before this patch, inter-chassis communication between VIFs of same
> lswitch will always go through tunnel, which end up of modeling a
> single physical network with many lswitches and pairs of lports, and
> complexity in CMS like OpenStack neutron to manage the lswitches and
> lports.
>
> With this patch, inter-chassis communication can go through physical
> networks via localnet port with a 1:1 mapping between lswitches and
> physical networks. The pipeline becomes:
>
> Ingress -> Egress (local) -> Ingress (remote) -> Egress
>
> The original tunneling mechanism will still be used if there is no
> localnet port configured on the lswitch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]>


Thanks for the additions.  You can keep my ACK on here.

Acked-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]>
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