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Message-ID: <53CEEFDB.5030900@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:12:27 -0700
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
To: Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>, davem@...emloft.net
CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 05/10] net: Add Geneve tunneling protocol driver
On 07/22/2014 03:19 AM, Andy Zhou wrote:
> This adds a device level support for Geneve -- Generic Network
> Virtualization Encapsulation. The protocol is documented at
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
>
> Only protocol layer Geneve support is provided by this driver.
> Openvswitch can be used for configuring, set up and tear down
> functional Geneve tunnels.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@...ira.com>
> ---
> include/net/geneve.h | 85 +++++++++++++++
> include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 2 +
> net/ipv4/Kconfig | 14 +++
> net/ipv4/Makefile | 1 +
> net/ipv4/geneve.c | 273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 11 ++
> net/openvswitch/vport.c | 3 +
> 7 files changed, 389 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 include/net/geneve.h
> create mode 100644 net/ipv4/geneve.c
>
So all this is really doing is enabling a Geneve socket for use by
Openvswitch. Do you have any plans to enable a stand alone interface
like what we already have for VXLAN?
Thanks,
Alex
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