On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:02:35 -0800 Roopa Prabhu <ro...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> On 2/1/17, 5:59 PM, David Ahern wrote: > > On 2/1/17 6:23 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:59:50PM -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > >>> > >>> This provides the required vxlan bridging function but poses a > >>> scalability problem with using a separate vxlan netdev for each vni. > >> if I remember correctly this issue was the main reason David Ahern > >> put netdev on diet. Sounds like no more fun at netconf ;) > >> > > oh, it still needs a diet ... > Even if the netdev went on diet, a netdev per vni for vxlan deployments is > just too much overhead. > > But the intent was VNI == VLAN tag and there are cases where you need per VNI rules. Having them all smashed into one netdev seems like a step in the wrong direction.
