netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/2] gre: add sequence number for collect md mode.

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Date:   Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:35:21 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     u9012063@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, ast@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/2] gre: add sequence number for collect md
 mode.

From: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Mar 2018 13:49:56 -0800

> Currently GRE sequence number can only be used in native tunnel mode.
> The first patch adds sequence number support for gre collect
> metadata mode, and the second patch tests it using BPF.
> 
> RFC2890 defines GRE sequence number to be specific to the traffic
> flow identified by the key.  However, this patch does not implement
> per-key seqno.  The sequence number is shared in the same tunnel
> device. That is, different tunnel keys using the same collect_md
> tunnel share single sequence number.
> 
> A new BFP uapi tunnel flag 'BPF_F_SEQ_NUMBER' is added.
> --
> v1->v2:
>   rename BPF_F_GRE_SEQ to BPF_F_SEQ_NUMBER suggested by Daniel

Series applied, thank you.