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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:15:05 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/8] geneve: Add support to collect tunnel metadata.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c
>> index 0a6d974..c05bc13 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c
>> @@ -141,10 +190,15 @@ drop:
>>  /* Setup stats when device is created */
>>  static int geneve_init(struct net_device *dev)
>>  {
>> +       struct geneve_dev *geneve = netdev_priv(dev);
>> +
>>         dev->tstats = netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats(struct pcpu_sw_netstats);
>>         if (!dev->tstats)
>>                 return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> +       if (geneve->collect_md)
>> +               dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
>
> I was going back and forth on whether this is the right thing to do.
> Is it any weirder to allow this than to move a normal tunnel device
> across namespaces?

Moving this device means moving all tunnels backed by this device
rather than specific tunnel device. Thats why it does not look right
to move such device.
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