From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] vxlan: implement GPE in L3 mode
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:26:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160227202609.6e19ee67@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S357WXaHBs0Tnf=PCcBZGr2Ryv8jr6rms_TWtYDytmRSKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:42:29 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Agreed, and I don't see why there even needs to be modes. VXLAN-GPE
> can carry arbitrary protocols with a next-header field. For Ethernet,
> MPLS, IPv4, and IPv6 it should just be a simple mapping of the next
> header to Ethertype for purposes of processing the payload.
That's exactly what this patchset does, Tom. The mapping is done in
vxlan_parse_gpe_hdr and vxlan_build_gpe_hdr.
Ethernet is special, though. It needs to be a standalone mode,
otherwise frames encapsulated including an Ethernet header wouldn't be
processed and there would be no way to send such packets - the only
distinction the driver can use is skb->protocol and that won't become
ETH_P_TEB magically.
Jiri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-27 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 7:48 [PATCH net-next 0/5] vxlan: implement Generic Protocol Extension (GPE) Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 7:48 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] vxlan: implement GPE in L2 mode Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 23:51 ` Tom Herbert
2016-02-27 19:31 ` Jiri Benc
2016-02-27 20:54 ` Tom Herbert
2016-02-27 21:02 ` Tom Herbert
2016-02-29 10:23 ` Jiri Benc
2016-02-29 17:13 ` Tom Herbert
2016-03-01 18:16 ` Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 7:48 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] vxlan: move L2 mode initialization to a separate function Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 7:48 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] vxlan: move fdb code to common location in vxlan_xmit Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 7:48 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] vxlan: fix too large pskb_may_pull with remote checksum Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 7:48 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] vxlan: implement GPE in L3 mode Jiri Benc
2016-02-26 22:22 ` Jesse Gross
2016-02-26 23:42 ` Tom Herbert
2016-02-27 19:26 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2016-02-27 19:21 ` Jiri Benc
2016-02-27 19:44 ` Jiri Benc
2016-03-08 22:18 ` Jesse Gross
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