netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] vxlan: Set a large MTU on ovs-created vxlan devices

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:48:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david@...ve.works
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] vxlan: Set a large MTU on ovs-created vxlan
 devices

From: David Wragg <david@...ve.works>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:42:52 +0000

> I'm willing to follow up on Jesse's request to look into the other
> tunnel types too, but at the moment I'm wondering what the chances are
> that the resulting submission would get accepted.

I'm ok with these fixes if you look into Jesse's feedback.

My basic gripe is that openvswitch can act as an L3 forwarding agent,
but does not contain the necessary state (f.e. topology information in
the form of a full FIB table) in order to behave like it should.