From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
To: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 05/10] net: Add Geneve tunneling protocol driver
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:12:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53CEEFDB.5030900@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406024393-6778-6-git-send-email-azhou@nicira.com>
On 07/22/2014 03:19 AM, Andy Zhou wrote:
> This adds a device level support for Geneve -- Generic Network
> Virtualization Encapsulation. The protocol is documented at
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
>
> Only protocol layer Geneve support is provided by this driver.
> Openvswitch can be used for configuring, set up and tear down
> functional Geneve tunnels.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
> ---
> include/net/geneve.h | 85 +++++++++++++++
> include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 2 +
> net/ipv4/Kconfig | 14 +++
> net/ipv4/Makefile | 1 +
> net/ipv4/geneve.c | 273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 11 ++
> net/openvswitch/vport.c | 3 +
> 7 files changed, 389 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 include/net/geneve.h
> create mode 100644 net/ipv4/geneve.c
>
So all this is really doing is enabling a Geneve socket for use by
Openvswitch. Do you have any plans to enable a stand alone interface
like what we already have for VXLAN?
Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-22 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-22 10:19 [net-next 00/10] Add Geneve Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 01/10] net: Rename ndo_add_vxlan_port to ndo_add_udp_tunnel_port Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:49 ` Varka Bhadram
2014-07-24 6:40 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-07-24 20:28 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 02/10] udp: Expand UDP tunnel common APIs Andy Zhou
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9M_BpjT-_Egng+jFxmqJzdC2Npg0ufE2ZSAb9Lhw8hxg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-22 21:02 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 21:16 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-22 21:56 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-22 22:38 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-22 22:55 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-07-22 23:24 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-23 2:16 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-07-23 3:53 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-23 4:35 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-23 15:45 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 3:24 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-22 23:12 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-23 19:57 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 20:23 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-24 20:47 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 20:54 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 03/10] vxlan: Remove vxlan_get_rx_port() Andy Zhou
[not found] ` <CAKgT0UeRSc3MaZrLmXyx4jPZO+F1hS5imR1TjFkvKp4S8nQmeg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-23 3:57 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 04/10] net: Refactor vxlan driver to make use of common UDP tunnel functions Andy Zhou
2014-07-24 6:46 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 05/10] net: Add Geneve tunneling protocol driver Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 23:12 ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2014-07-22 23:24 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-23 14:11 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-23 18:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 06/10] openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 07/10] openvswitch: Add support for matching on OAM packets Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 08/10] openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 09/10] openvswitch: Factor out allocation and verification of actions Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 10/10] openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling Andy Zhou
2014-07-23 20:29 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 4:10 ` Jesse Gross
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9umxiFYtnG1kzFkK+Ev=b=4f3q2OOow2QcfCB5rUTUyA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-24 22:59 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-24 23:45 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-25 1:04 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-22 10:54 ` [net-next 00/10] Add Geneve Varka Bhadram
2014-07-24 6:58 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-07-24 17:40 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 21:03 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-24 22:03 ` Tom Herbert
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