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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:29:51 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: pshelar@....org Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jarno@....org, jbenc@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling. From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 08:31:27 -0800 > Networking stack accelerate vlan tag handling by > keeping topmost vlan header in skb. This works as > long as packet remains in OVS datapath. But during > OVS upcall vlan header is pushed on to the packet. > When such packet is sent back to OVS datapath, core > networking stack might not handle it correctly. Following > patch avoids this issue by accelerating the vlan tag > during flow key extract. This simplifies datapath by > bringing uniform packet processing for packets from > all code paths. > > Fixes: 5108bbaddc ("openvswitch: add processing of L3 packets"). > CC: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@....org> > CC: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com> > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org> Applied.
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