From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hkchu@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] Generic UDP Encapsulation
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:33:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140104143338.246740e3@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1401021400260.32181@tomh.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:12:06 -0800 (PST)
Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> wrote:
> This patch series implements Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE).
> Intelligently encapsulating packets in UDP leverages device
> support for UDP flows. The 5-tuple hash can be computed for UDP
> to provide good ECMP, RSS, or link aggregation port selection.
>
> Generic UDP encapsulation refers to encapsulating packets of
> arbitray IP protocols in UDP packets. Two flavors of GUE
> are implemented in these patches:
>
> 1) Direct protocol encapsulation
> 2) Encapsualtion in generic UDP encapsulation
Is this a new wire protocol, or a simplification of existing
tunnel code? It seems to be VXLAN without the VNI header.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-04 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-02 22:12 [PATCH RFC 0/7] Generic UDP Encapsulation Tom Herbert
2014-01-04 22:33 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-01-04 23:13 ` Tom Herbert
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