From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pshelar@ovn.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jarno@ovn.org, jbenc@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling.
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:29:51 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161227.122951.662506742518657444.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482769887-8022-1-git-send-email-pshelar@ovn.org>
From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 08:31:27 -0800
> Networking stack accelerate vlan tag handling by
> keeping topmost vlan header in skb. This works as
> long as packet remains in OVS datapath. But during
> OVS upcall vlan header is pushed on to the packet.
> When such packet is sent back to OVS datapath, core
> networking stack might not handle it correctly. Following
> patch avoids this issue by accelerating the vlan tag
> during flow key extract. This simplifies datapath by
> bringing uniform packet processing for packets from
> all code paths.
>
> Fixes: 5108bbaddc ("openvswitch: add processing of L3 packets").
> CC: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
> CC: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-27 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-26 16:31 [PATCH net] openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling Pravin B Shelar
2016-12-27 17:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-01-04 17:39 ` Jiri Benc
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