netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] udp: Generalize GSO for UDP tunnels

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Message-Id: <20141001.213624.146270186000828895.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:36:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] udp: Generalize GSO for UDP tunnels

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:22:28 -0700

> This patch set generalizes the UDP tunnel segmentation functions so
> that they can work with various protocol encapsulations. The primary
> change is to set the inner_protocol field in the skbuff when creating
> the encapsulated packet, and then in skb_udp_tunnel_segment this data
> is used to determine the function for segmenting the encapsulated
> packet. The inner_protocol field is overloaded to take either an
> Ethertype or IP protocol.
> 
> The inner_protocol is set on transmit using skb_set_inner_ipproto or
> skb_set_inner_protocol functions. VXLAN and IP tunnels (for fou GSO)
> were modified to call these.

Series applied, thanks Tom.
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