On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 12:08:23AM +0000, Yang, Yi Y wrote: > Ben, yes, we submitted nsh support patch set last year, but ovs > community told me we have to push kernel part into Linux kernel tree, > we're struggling to do this, but something blocked us from doing this.
It's quite difficult to get patches for a new protocol into the kernel. You have my sympathy. > Recently, ovs did some changes in tunnel protocols which requires the > packet decapsulated by a tunnel must be a Ethernet packet, but Linux > kernel (net-next) tree accepted VxLAN-gpe patch set from Redhat guy > (Jiri Benc) which requires the packet decapsulated by VxLAN-gpe port > must be L3 packet but not L2 Ethernet packet, this blocked us from > progressing better. > > Simon Horman (Netronome guy) has posted a series of patches to remove > the mandatory requirement from ovs in order that the packet from a > tunnel can be any packet, but so far we didn't see they are merged. These are slowly working their way through OVS review, but these also have a prerequisite on kernel patches, so it's not easy to get them in either. > I heard ovs community looks forward to getting nsh patches merged, it > will be great if ovs guys can help progress this. I do plan to do my part in review (but much of this is kernel review, which I'm not really involved in anymore). __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev