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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:47:30 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Cc:	jesse@...nel.org, eugenia@...lanox.com, jbenc@...hat.com,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, saeedm@...lanox.com,
	ariel.elior@...gic.com, tom@...bertland.com,
	michael.chan@...adcom.com, Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...gic.com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 03/17] net: Merge VXLAN and GENEVE push
 notifiers into a single notifier

On 16.06.2016 21:21, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch merges the notifiers for VXLAN and GENEVE into a single UDP
> tunnel notifier.  The idea is that we will want to only have to make one
> notifier call to receive the list of ports for VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels
> that need to be offloaded.
> 
> In addition we add a new set of ndo functions named ndo_udp_tunnel_add and
> ndo_udp_tunnel_del that are meant to allow us to track the tunnel meta-data
> such as port and address family as tunnels are added and removed.  The
> tunnel meta-data is now transported in a structure named udp_tunnel_info
> which for now carries the type, address family, and port number.  In the
> future this could be updated so that we can include a tuple of values
> including things such as the destination IP address and other fields.
> 
> I also ended up going with a naming scheme that consisted of using the
> prefix udp_tunnel on function names.  I applied this to the notifier and
> ndo ops as well so that it hopefully points to the fact that these are
> primarily used in the udp_tunnel functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>


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