From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>,
Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: combine VXLAN_FLOWBASED into VXLAN_COLLECT_METADATA
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:42:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150805144242.GB3530@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438753867-32403-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com>
On 08/04/15 at 10:51pm, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> IFLA_VXLAN_FLOWBASED is useless without IFLA_VXLAN_COLLECT_METADATA,
> so combine them into single IFLA_VXLAN_COLLECT_METADATA flag.
> 'flowbased' doesn't convey real meaning of the vxlan tunnel mode.
> This mode can be used by routing, tc+bpf and ovs.
> Only ovs is strictly flow based, so 'collect metadata' is a better
> name for this tunnel mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
I have no objection since a flag to enable tx only can be added again if
needed. As stated in the other thread, the tx only mode which is what
VXLAN was capable of doing so far is what motivated the split of flags.
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-05 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 5:51 [PATCH net-next] vxlan: combine VXLAN_FLOWBASED into VXLAN_COLLECT_METADATA Alexei Starovoitov
2015-08-05 14:42 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-08-05 16:19 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-08-07 18:46 ` David Miller
2015-08-10 23:47 ` VxLAN support question Andrew Qu
2015-08-11 5:37 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-08-11 17:58 ` Andrew Qu
2015-08-13 0:38 ` Andrew Qu
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