From: Simon Horman <simon.hor...@netronome.com> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:58:25 +0100
> John Hurley says: > > This patchset adds support for offloading the encap and decap of Geneve > tunnels to the NFP. In both cases, specifying well known port 6081 is a > requirement for rule offload. > > Geneve firmware support has been recently added, so the patchset includes > the reading of a fw symbol that defines a bitmap of newly supported > features. Geneve will only be offloaded if the fw supports it. The new > symbol is added in fw r5646. > > Geneve option fields are not supported as either a match or an action due > there current exclussion from TC flower. Because Geneve (as both a match > and action) behaves the same as other udp tunnels such as VXLAN, generic > functions are created that handle both Geneve and VXLAN. It is anticapated > that these functions will be modified to support options in future > patches. > > The removal of an unused variable 'tun_dst_mask' is included as a separate > patch here. This does not affect functionality. > > Also included are modifications to the test framework to check that the > new encap and decap features are functioning correctly. Series applied, thank you.
