netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net 0/2] Add IP_DSCP_MASK and fix vxlan tos value before xmit

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Date:   Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:47:00 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Petr Machata <pmachata@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Andreas Karis <akaris@...hat.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net 0/2] Add IP_DSCP_MASK and fix vxlan tos value
 before xmit

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:43:10AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> This patch set is aim to update the old IP_TOS_MASK to new IP_DSCP_MASK
> as tos value has been obsoleted for a long time. But to make sure we don't
> break any existing behaviour, we can't just replease all IP_TOS_MASK
> to new IP_DSCP_MASK.
> 
> So let's update it case by case. The first issue we will fix is that vxlan
> is unable to take the first 3 bits from DSCP field before xmit. Use the
> new RT_DSCP() would resolve this.
> 
> v2: Remove IP_DSCP() definition as it's duplicated with RT_DSCP().
>     Post the patch to net instead of net-next as we need fix the vxlan issue

Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>