From: Simon Horman <simon.horman-wFxRvT7yatFl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org,
netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 net-next 4/7] openvswitch: add layer 3 flow/port support
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:11:23 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160520081120.GA17561@vergenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160520100028.0065a2ef@griffin>
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:00:28AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2016 14:29:01 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > The second option does seem rather tempting although I'm not sure
> > that it actually plays out in the access-port scenario at this time.
>
> We support gre ports to be access ports currently. With conversion to
> ipgre, this needs to continue working. It's no problem for frames with
> the Ethernet header but now we have a situation where a port is tagged,
> thus the user expects that packets received on that port will behave
> accordingly. I don't think we can make some packets honor this and some
> ignore this; and we can't disallow gre to be an access port.
>
> How do you plan to solve this? By user space always pushing an ethernet
> header before push_vlan?
Yes. That is my understanding of how OvS currently handles access ports but
I have a feeling that either I am mistaken or that you are referring to a
slightly different scenario.
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-04 7:36 [PATCH v9 net-next 0/7] openvswitch: support for layer 3 encapsulated packets Simon Horman
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 1/7] net: add skb_vlan_deaccel helper Simon Horman
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 2/7] openvswitch: set skb protocol when receiving on internal device Simon Horman
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 3/7] openvswitch: add support to push and pop mpls for layer3 packets Simon Horman
[not found] ` <1462347393-22354-4-git-send-email-simon.horman-wFxRvT7yatFl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-05 17:35 ` pravin shelar
2016-05-06 4:33 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 4/7] openvswitch: add layer 3 flow/port support Simon Horman
[not found] ` <1462347393-22354-5-git-send-email-simon.horman-wFxRvT7yatFl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-05 17:37 ` pravin shelar
2016-05-06 5:57 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-06 9:25 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-09 8:04 ` Simon Horman
[not found] ` <20160509080420.GA4470-IxS8c3vjKQDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-10 12:01 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-11 1:50 ` Simon Horman
[not found] ` <20160511015009.GB24436-IxS8c3vjKQDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-11 3:06 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-11 14:09 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-11 22:46 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-17 14:43 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-18 2:18 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-11 13:57 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-06 9:35 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-09 8:18 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-10 0:16 ` [ovs-dev] " Yang, Yi Y
[not found] ` <79BBBFE6CB6C9B488C1A45ACD284F51913CB6446-0J0gbvR4kTggGBtAFL8yw7fspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-10 12:07 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-10 12:06 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-11 3:28 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-11 14:10 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-17 14:32 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-20 5:29 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-20 8:00 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-20 8:11 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2016-05-20 8:16 ` Simon Horman
[not found] ` <20160520081611.GB17561-IxS8c3vjKQDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-20 8:39 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-20 9:12 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-20 9:20 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-20 10:14 ` Simon Horman
[not found] ` <1462347393-22354-1-git-send-email-simon.horman-wFxRvT7yatFl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 5/7] openvswitch: add layer 3 support to ovs_packet_cmd_execute() Simon Horman
[not found] ` <1462347393-22354-6-git-send-email-simon.horman-wFxRvT7yatFl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-17 14:51 ` Jiri Benc
2016-05-18 2:24 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 6/7] openvswitch: extend layer 3 support to cover non-IP packets Simon Horman
2016-05-04 7:36 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 7/7] openvswitch: use ipgre tunnel rather than gretap tunnel Simon Horman
[not found] ` <1462347393-22354-8-git-send-email-simon.horman-wFxRvT7yatFl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-05 21:45 ` pravin shelar
2016-05-06 6:54 ` Simon Horman
2016-05-06 9:15 ` Jiri Benc
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