On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:41 PM, pravin shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@kernel.org> wrote:
>> Some tunnel protocols, such as Geneve, have a bit in the tunnel
>> header to indicate that it is an OAM packet. This means that the
>> packet should be processed as a tunnel control frame and not be
>> passed onto connected links.
>>
>> When BFD is used inside of a tunnel it is often used in this control
>> capacity, so this adds an option to enable marking the outer header
>> when the output port is a tunnel that supports the OAM concept. It is
>> also possible to use tunnels as point-to-point links that are simply
>> carrying BFD as payload, so this is not always turned on.
>>
>> Conceptually, this may also apply to other types of packets locally
>> generated by the switch, most obviously CFM. However, BFD seems to
>> be most commonly used for this type of tunnel monitoring application
>> so this only adds the option to BFD for the time being to avoid
>> unnecessarily adding configuration knobs that might never get used.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@kernel.org>
>> ---
> I got white space warning from git am:-
>
> Applying: bfd: Allow setting OAM bit when encapsulated in tunnel.
>
> /home/pravin/ovs/ovs/w8/.git/rebase-apply/patch:210: trailing whitespace.
>
> ofproto_dpif_send_packet(const struct ofport_dpif *ofport, bool oam,
>
> warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.
>
> ---
> Otherwise looks good.
>
> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org>

Thanks, I fixed the whitespace error and applied this to master.
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