At the core of this patch set is removing the assumption in Open vSwitch datapath that all packets have Ethernet header. Support for layer 3 GRE tunnels is also added by this patchset.
The implementation relies on the presence of pop_eth and push_eth actions in datapath flows to facilitate adding and removing Ethernet headers as appropriate. The construction of such flows is left up to user-space. This series is based on work by Simon Horman, Lorand Jakab, Thomas Morin and others. I kept Lorand's and Simon's s-o-b in the patches that are derived from v11 to record their authorship of parts of the code. Please let me know if you disagree with this. v12 differs from v11 a lot. The main changes are: * The patches were restructured and split differently for easier review. * They were rebased and adjusted to the current net-next. Especially MPLS handling is different (and easier) thanks to the recent MPLS GSO rework. * Several bugs were discovered and fixed. The most notable is fragment handling: header adjustment for ARPHRD_NONE devices on tx needs to be done after refragmentation, not before it. This required significant changes in the patchset. Another one is stricter checking of attributes (match on L2 vs. L3 packet) at the kernel level. * Instead of is_layer3 bool, a mac_proto field is used. See patch 2. This is a matter of taste and alternate approaches are offered in patch 2 description. There is no change to uAPI since v11. The previously posted patchset for Open vSwitch user space works with this submission unmodified. Jiri Benc (8): openvswitch: use hard_header_len instead of hardcoded ETH_HLEN openvswitch: add mac_proto field to the flow key openvswitch: pass mac_proto to ovs_vport_send openvswitch: support MPLS push and pop for L3 packets openvswitch: add processing of L3 packets openvswitch: netlink: support L3 packets openvswitch: add Ethernet push and pop actions openvswitch: allow L3 netdev ports Simon Horman (1): openvswitch: use ipgre tunnel rather than gretap tunnel include/net/gre.h | 4 +- include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 15 ++++ net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 9 +- net/openvswitch/actions.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++------- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 17 +--- net/openvswitch/flow.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++------ net/openvswitch/flow.h | 22 +++++ net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 179 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c | 2 +- net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c | 9 +- net/openvswitch/vport.c | 28 ++++-- net/openvswitch/vport.h | 2 +- 12 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
