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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] geneve: Add support to collect tunnel metadata.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:48:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150825174801.GD3707@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEP_g=9Fpb9KOeqeeK_dbCdec8TvHm-iUZ4V_MWj1Mc21Qa9OQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/25/15 at 09:50am, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> wrote:
> > Moving this device means moving all tunnels backed by this device
> > rather than specific tunnel device. Thats why it does not look right
> > to move such device.
> 
> I agree it seems weird in general. There were two things that made me wonder:
>  * It doesn't appear that VXLAN or GRE do this.
>  * The use case for moving a single tunnel to a different namespace is
> to have the device and socket live in different places. I guess
> conceptually this could apply to collect_md devices as well. (Maybe to
> have harder isolation between inside and outside the tunnel?)
> 
> I'm not really sure what the best answer is but at least we should be
> consistent across tunnel types.

I agree with Jesse that consistent behaviour is desirable. If needed,
let's change it for all encap types.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-25 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-24 17:43 [PATCH v3 net-next 0/8] Geneve: Add support for tunnel metadata mode Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/8] geneve: Initialize ethernet address in device setup Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-26 20:42   ` John W. Linville
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/8] geneve: Use skb mark and protocol to lookup route Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-26 20:46   ` John W. Linville
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 3/8] tunnel: introduce udp_tun_rx_dst() Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-24 22:02   ` Jesse Gross
2015-08-25 17:46   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 4/8] geneve: Make dst-port configurable Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-25 17:47   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-26 20:47   ` John W. Linville
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] geneve: Add support to collect tunnel metadata Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-25  1:42   ` Jesse Gross
2015-08-25  2:15     ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-25 16:50       ` Jesse Gross
2015-08-25 17:48         ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-08-25 21:16         ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-25 18:12   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 6/8] openvswitch: Use Geneve device Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-25 17:48   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 7/8] geneve: Consolidate Geneve functionality in single module Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-25 18:19   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-25 20:55     ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-25 19:03   ` Jesse Gross
2015-08-25 20:54     ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-25 21:35       ` Jesse Gross
2015-08-26  0:05         ` Pravin Shelar
2015-08-24 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 8/8] geneve: Move device hash table to geneve socket Pravin B Shelar
2015-08-26 21:14   ` John W. Linville

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