On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com> wrote:
> Upstream commit:
> openvswitch: Support VXLAN Group Policy extension
>
> Introduces support for the group policy extension to the VXLAN virtual
> port. The extension is disabled by default and only enabled if the user
> has provided the respective configuration.
>
> ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vxlan0 -- \
> set Interface vxlan0 type=vxlan options:exts=gbp
>
> The configuration interface to enable the extension is based on a new
> attribute OVS_VXLAN_EXT_GBP nested inside OVS_TUNNEL_ATTR_EXTENSION
> which can carry additional extensions as needed in the future.
>
> The group policy metadata is stored as binary blob (struct ovs_vxlan_opts)
> internally just like Geneve options but transported as nested Netlink
> attributes to user space.
>
> Renames the existing TUNNEL_OPTIONS_PRESENT to TUNNEL_GENEVE_OPT with the
> binary value kept intact, a new flag TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT is introduced.
>
> The attributes OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_VXLAN_OPTS and existing
> OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_GENEVE_OPTS are implemented mutually exclusive.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
>
> Upstream: 1dd144 ("openvswitch: Support VXLAN Group Policy extension")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
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