netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2 0/3] light weight tunnel infrastructure and driver

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:38:36 +0100
From:	Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	<tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2 0/3] light weight tunnel infrastructure
 and driver

On 19/06/15 05:49, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>
> This series implements infrastructure for light weight tunnels to support
> mpls label edge routers (ie mpls ip tunnels). As previously discussed
> having netdevices will not scale. Hence this series introduces new RTA_ENCAP*
> attributes to attach encap information with routes (following suggestion
> from Eric Biederman).

Looks promising, thanks for posting this series Roopa!

>
> The first patch introduces an infrastructure to support light weight tunnels
> that dont have netdevices. The infrastructure allows tunnel drivers
> to register handlers to parse and build tunnel encap data which can be attached
> to each route nexthop.
>
> The second patch adds support in ipv4 fib to carry such light weight tunnel
> encap data.

I presume this isn't ready to be merged until IPv6 is done, right?

>
> The third patch implements mpls ip tunnels using this light weight tunnel
> infrastructure.
>
> Could not think of a better name, so, it is 'lwt' for 'light weight tunnels'
> for now.

I can't think of a better name either.

Thanks,
Rob
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