On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 02:26:55PM +0000, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
> Hi, Eric
> 
> We hope Jiri's L3 patchset can be applied into current ovs because we and 
> Ericsson guys are enabling packet_type support and PTAP & non-PTAP based on 
> L3 patchset, Pravin said you're backporting your 802.1ad patches from 
> net-next to ovs, we don't know when your patches can be posted in ovs-dev, I 
> can help with this if you have no time.

I had replied to Pravin earlier in this thread.

I do intend to backport the kernel changes to the ovs out-of-tree
module. I was waiting until userspace was ready. Unfortunately that's
not likely to happen this week or even next.

If you have the time feel free to give it a go.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2017 5:33 PM
> To: Yang, Yi Y <[email protected]>; Eric Garver <[email protected]>
> Cc: ovs dev <[email protected]>; Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/17] datapath: Fix skb->protocol for vlan frames
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yang, Yi Y <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Pravin, the issue is current ovs has too many differences from net-next 
> > tree, the best way is to apply all the patches before your patch, but it 
> > seems a super huge work, it is out of my capability :-) Anybody of you is 
> > working on this?
> >
> 
> First we need to get 802.1ad patches merged in OVS out of tree module.
> Eric is working on 802.1ad support to OVS. I guess he will backport these 
> patches to out of tree kernel module along with the userspace patches. That 
> will cover majority of the remaining changes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pravin.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2017 3:45 PM
> > To: Yang, Yi Y <[email protected]>
> > Cc: ovs dev <[email protected]>; Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/17] datapath: Fix skb->protocol for vlan 
> > frames
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Yi Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Do not always set skb->protocol to be the ethertype of the L3 header.
> >> For a packet with non-accelerated VLAN tags skb->protocol needs to be the 
> >> ethertype of the outermost non-accelerated VLAN ethertype.
> >>
> >> Any VLAN offloading is undone on the OVS netlink interface, and any VLAN 
> >> tags added by userspace are non-accelerated, as are double tagged VLAN 
> >> packets.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 018c1dda5f ("openvswitch: 802.1AD Flow handling, actions, vlan 
> >> parsing, netlink attributes")
> >> Fixes: 5108bbaddc ("openvswitch: add processing of L3 packets")
> >> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <[email protected]>
> > This is not upstream patch. So even though it fixes the issue we can not 
> > apply it to out of tree kernel module.
> >
> > Can you look at the net branch for the correct patch.
> >
> > Thanks.
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