netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] openvswitch: Use regular GRE net

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2015 22:55:25 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] openvswitch: Use regular GRE net_device
 instead of vport

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:59 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 21:23:40 -0700
>
>> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:27:26PM -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>>> With addition of flow based tunneling, there is no need to
>>> have special GRE vport. Removes all of the OVS specific
>>> GRE code and make OVS use a ip_gre net_device.
>>> Minimal GRE vport is kept to handle compatibility with
>>> current userspace application.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
>> ...
>>> +#define GRE_TAP_FB_NAME "gretap0"
>> ...
>>> +    /* fallback device is used for flow based tunneling. */
>>> +    if (!strcmp(dev->name, GRE_TAP_FB_NAME)) {
>>> +            struct ip_tunnel *t;
>>> +
>>> +            t = netdev_priv(dev);
>>> +            t->flow_based_tunnel = true;
>>> +            eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
>>> +            netif_keep_dst(dev);
>>> +    }
>>> +
>>
>> feature detection based on netdev name?
>> meaning that there will be only one such device for the whole
>> host? and namespaces cannot have their own gre tunnels?
>> (since host 'gretap0' cannot be seen in netns)
>
> Doing anything like this by netdev name is wrong.
>
> Pravin you will need to do this in some other way.
>
ok, I will add API to create flow-based GRE device.
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