Hi carl just reading thought this full thread now But there are probably 2 usecase that we would like to use this for in neutron. Vlan transparency for the ovs neutron network and as a qinq type driver. We also might want to extend the vlan aware vms spec to support qinq at some point So once this is available in ovs I think there are several places it could be beneficial To consume it in neutron.
> -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Carl Baldwin > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 7:36 PM > To: Xiao Liang <shaw.l...@gmail.com> > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Add support for 802.1ad (QinQ tunneling) > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Xiao Liang <shaw.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for QinQ support in OVS for some time. And found > > patches[1-3] by Thomas, and Gayathri. What I want is to use QinQ > > tunneling in neutron networking, which needs vlan_mode configuration > > of ports (as in Gayathri's > > patch) as well as openflow VLAN manipulating action support (as in > > Thomas's patch). Unfortunately, these patches are not compatible, so I > > made this patch. > > It's based on Thomas's kernel patch and reference the idea from > > Gayathri, and is (in my tests) backward compatible. Although the > > kernel patch not merged yet, I believe the nlmsg will not change. > > > > I haven't seen much discussion on the kernel patches that you reference since > they > were proposed in November. I'm unfamiliar with the process for landing > changes > like this which span the linux and ovs repositories. Is there effort being > made > elsewhere to get these to land? Where might I look to follow that effort? > Is there > anything I can do to help with the process? > > Carl > > References: > > [1] openvswitch: 802.1ad uapi changes, Thomas F Herbert, > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/540673/ > > Check for vlan ethernet types for 8021.q or 802.1ad, > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/540668/ > > openvswitch: 802.1AD: Flow handling, actions, vlan parsing and > > netlink attributes, https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/540671/ > > [2] Add 802.1ad (qinq) support, Thomas F Herbert, > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-October/060874.html > > [3] 802.1ad support in OVS & OVS-DPDK, Gayathri Manepalli, > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-February/066265.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev