From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>, Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add GENEVE netdev tunnel driver
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 12:32:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150508123248.69994aa1@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431105657-25492-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
On Fri, 8 May 2015 13:20:52 -0400
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> This 5-patch kernel series adds a netdev implementation of a GENEVE
> tunnel driver, and the single iproute2 patch enables creation and
> such for those netdevs. This makes use of the existing GENEVE
> infrastructure already used by the OVS code. The net/ipv4/geneve.c
> file is renamed as net/ipv4/geneve_core.c as part of these changes.
>
> drivers/net/Kconfig | 14 +
> drivers/net/Makefile | 1
> drivers/net/geneve.c | 550 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/net/geneve.h | 5
> include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 9
> net/ipv4/Kconfig | 4
> net/ipv4/Makefile | 2
> net/ipv4/geneve.c | 6
> net/ipv4/geneve_core.c | 4
> net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 2
> net/openvswitch/vport-geneve.c | 5
> 11 files changed, 585 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> The overall structure of the GENEVE netdev driver is strongly
> influenced by the VXLAN netdev driver. This is not surprising, as the
> two drivers are intended to serve similar purposes. As development of
> the GENEVE driver continues, it is likely that those similarities will
> grow stronger. This will include both simple configuration options
> (e.g. TOS and TTL settings) and new control plane support.
Look good. Thanks.
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-08 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-08 17:20 [PATCH] add GENEVE netdev tunnel driver John W. Linville
2015-05-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] geneve: remove MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK from net/ipv4/geneve.c John W. Linville
2015-05-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] geneve: move definition of geneve_hdr() to geneve.h John W. Linville
2015-05-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] geneve: Rename support library as geneve_core John W. Linville
2015-05-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] geneve_core: identify as driver library in modules description John W. Linville
2015-05-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] geneve: add initial netdev driver for GENEVE tunnels John W. Linville
2015-05-08 20:55 ` Cong Wang
2015-05-08 23:22 ` John W. Linville
2015-05-10 23:48 ` David Miller
2015-05-11 15:17 ` John W. Linville
2015-05-08 23:19 ` Jesse Gross
2015-05-11 20:51 ` [PATCH v2 " John W. Linville
2015-05-13 3:06 ` David Miller
2015-05-13 16:53 ` John W. Linville
2015-05-08 17:27 ` [PATCH] iproute2: GENEVE support John W. Linville
2015-05-08 23:27 ` Jesse Gross
2015-05-11 18:47 ` [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2015-05-08 19:32 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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