Hi Han, On 10/29/25 7:05 PM, Han Zhou wrote: > This patch introduces flow-based tunnels as an alternative to > traditional port-based tunnels, significantly reducing tunnel port count > in large deployments. > > Flow-based tunnels use shared ports (one per tunnel type) with > options:local_ip=flow and options:remote_ip=flow. OpenFlow flows > dynamically set tunnel endpoints using set_field actions, reducing port > count to O(T) where T is the number of tunnel types. > > The feature is experimental, and controlled by > external_ids:ovn-enable-flow-based-tunnels (default: false). > > Some known limitations: > - IPsec is not supported > - BFD between tunnel endpoints is not supported, thus HA chassis not > supported. > > Assisted-by: Cursor, with model: Claude Sonnet 4.5
Thanks a lot for adhering to the contribution guidelines, awesome! > Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]> > --- I do plan to have a closer look at the actual code change in the near future. Regards, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
