netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] bridge: per vlan lwt and dst

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:09:49 -0800
From:   Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
CC:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] bridge: per vlan lwt and dst_metadata
 support

On 1/23/17, 9:03 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Also, the goal is to reduce the number of vxlan devices from say 4k to 1.
>> I don't think replacing it with 8k (egress + ingress) rules is going in the
>> right direction.
>>
> Can't you take advantage of the shared vxlan device configuration
> introduced throughout the LWT work such that you have single device dealing
> with many tunnels? why?
>
I tried to cover this in my initial paragraph in the cover letter:
"lwt and dst_metadata/collect_metadata have enabled vxlan l3 deployments to use a 'single vxlan
netdev for multiple vnis' eliminating the scalability problem with using a 'single vxlan netdev per vni'.
This series tries to do the same for vxlan netdevs in pure l2 bridged networks. Use-case/deployment and
details are below." there is more in the cover letter on this.

There is no route pointing to the vxlan device here. vxlan device is a bridged port. And it bridges local host ports to remote vxlan tunnels
vlan-to-vxlan.