Inserting an important note for reviewers/testers.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 03:39:50PM -0400, Eric Garver wrote:
> This series enables support for layer3 tunnels VXLAN-GPE and GRE in the kernel
> datapath. It includes new system-traffic test cases. The first two patches fix
> an issue translating packet_type from flows for the kernel.
> 
> Note: VXLAN-GPE depends on a fix recently posted to the list.
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-June/334788.html

Note: This depends on vport-netdev changes to allow L3 netdev ports,
kernel commit 217ac77a3c25 ("openvswitch: allow L3 netdev ports"). So
you either need a 4.10+ kernel or use the modules provided with OVS.

> 
> Eric Garver (10):
>   netlink: Add function to filter nlattrs
>   dpif-netlink: For non-Ethernet, use Ethertype from packet_type
>   dpif-netlink-rtnl: Support VXLAN-GPE
>   dpif-netlink-rtnl: Support layer3 GRE
>   system-common-macros: Allow passing config to ADD_OVS_TUNNEL
>   system-common-macros: Add macro to check for ip-route encap support
>   system-common-macros: Add macro to check for VXLAN-GPE support
>   system-layer3-tunnels: Add basic VXLAN-GPE ping test case
>   system-common-macros: Add macro to check for L3 GRE support
>   system-layer3-tunnels: Add basic GRE ping test case
> 
>  lib/dpif-netlink-rtnl.c             | 34 +++++++++----
>  lib/dpif-netlink.c                  | 48 ++++++++++++------
>  lib/netlink.c                       | 20 ++++++++
>  lib/netlink.h                       |  1 +
>  tests/automake.mk                   |  1 +
>  tests/system-common-macros.at       | 21 ++++++--
>  tests/system-kmod-testsuite.at      |  1 +
>  tests/system-layer3-tunnels.at      | 99 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/system-userspace-testsuite.at |  1 +
>  9 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/system-layer3-tunnels.at
> 
> -- 
> 2.12.0
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