On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 03:41:54PM +0000, Sugesh Chandran wrote:
> Openvswitch datapath recirculates packets for tunneling, i.e.
> the incoming packets are encapsulated at first pass. Further actions are
> applied on encapsulated packets on the second pass after recirculating.
> The proposed patch compute and append the post tunnel actions at the time of
> translation itself instead of recirculating at datapath. These actions are 
> solely
> depends on tunnel attributes so there is no need of datapath recirculation.
> By avoiding the recirculation at datapath, the patch offers upto 30%
> performance improvement for VxLAN tunneling in our testing.
> The action execution logic is using the new CLONE action to define
> the packet cloning when the actions are combined. The lenght in the CLONE
> action specifies the size of nested action set.
> 
> Also fixing the test suites failures that are introduced by CLONE action in
> tunneling except the ovn test case 2299.

I guess by this you mean that this test still consistently fails?
  2301: ovn -- 1 LR with distributed router gateway port FAILED (ovn.at:6658)

What's the plan for that, presumably we can't apply a patch that causes
test failures?
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