netdev - Re: [PATCH next 3/3] ipvlan: Introduce l3s mode

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Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2016 15:17:34 -0700
From:   Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) 
        <maheshb@...gle.com>
To:     Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com>
Cc:     Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next 3/3] ipvlan: Introduce l3s mode

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2016 02:53 PM, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
>
>> @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ master device for the L2 processing and routing from
>> that instance will be
>>  used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the
>> slaves
>>  will not receive nor can send multicast / broadcast traffic.
>>
>> +4.3 L3S mode:
>> +       This is very similar to the L3 mode except that iptables
>> conn-tracking
>> +works in this mode and that is why L3-symsetric (L3s) from iptables
>> perspective.
>> +This will have slightly less performance but that shouldn't matter since
>> you
>> +are choosing this mode over plain-L3 mode to make conn-tracking work.
>
>
> What is that first sentence trying to say?  It appears to be incomplete, and
> is that supposed to be "L3-symmetric?"
>
Apologies! Seems like I picked up wrong text file (I'll correct this
in next ver). BTW it should read -
" This is very similar to L3 mode except that iptables (conn-tracking)
works in this mode and hence it is  L3-symmetric (L3s). This will have
..."

> happy benchmarking,
>
> rick jones