From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6]i40e:Add VxLAN Cloud filter API Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:50:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4346025.4OV9mqUq5g@xps13> References: <1407813127-10991-1-git-send-email-jijiang.liu@intel.com> <1875158.2CzkkyWnXV@xps13> <1ED644BD7E0A5F4091CF203DAFB8E4CC01D5FCDE@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: "Liu, Jijiang" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1ED644BD7E0A5F4091CF203DAFB8E4CC01D5FCDE-0J0gbvR4kThpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 2014-08-13 08:23, Liu, Jijiang: > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org] > > About API, why name it cloud filter instead of VxLAN? > > VxLAN is just a kind tunnel type, there are another tunnel types based > on protocol type, they are below. > Tunnel Type: > * 0x0: VXLAN > * 0x1: NVGRE or other MAC in GRE > * 0x2: Geneve > 0x3: IP in GRE > Currently, I just implemented VxLAN tunnel type, and we will support > another tunnel types in cloud filter API later. OK, I understand. But cloud filter is just a marketing name. Please let's stick to technical and precise names. It seems these tunnels are L2 over IP, right? -- Thomas