From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] vxlan: convert remote list to list_rcu Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:00:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20130604090031.1283b96f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1369821617-29098-1-git-send-email-mike.rapoport@ravellosystems.com> <1369821617-29098-3-git-send-email-mike.rapoport@ravellosystems.com> <20130530110948.GA10532@casper.infradead.org> <20130530113739.GB10532@casper.infradead.org> <20130531091740.70b3e077@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <20130602102942.GA21706@zed> <20130603112616.3ad018e2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Stevens , netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Graf To: Mike Rapoport Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f50.google.com ([209.85.160.50]:57285 "EHLO mail-pb0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752522Ab3FDQAf (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:00:35 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id wy17so442085pbc.37 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:00:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I am still not 100% convinced of the use case of providing multiple destinations. It seems like either a solution for migrating guests, a way to do SPAN, or a weird form of multicast. Wouldn't it be better to use something like TC actions for these special cases and handle it at the IP layer rather than having to add so much complexity into the VXLAN driver itself.