netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/13] route: move lwtunnel state to dst

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Message-ID: <55D42780.1040105@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:51:44 -0700
From:	roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/13] route: move lwtunnel state to dst_entry

On 8/18/15, 1:33 PM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Currently, the lwtunnel state resides in per-protocol data. This is
> a problem if we encapsulate ipv6 traffic in an ipv4 tunnel (or vice versa).
> The xmit function of the tunnel does not know whether the packet has been
> routed to it by ipv4 or ipv6, yet it needs the lwtstate data. Moving the
> lwtstate data to dst_entry makes such inter-protocol tunneling possible.
>
> As a bonus, this brings a nice diffstat.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>

great..! thanks for doing this. I was working on a similar patch.
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