From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira•com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>,
Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira•com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next 05/10] net: Add Geneve tunneling protocol driver
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:11:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140723141126.GB14162@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEP_g=82H_h85Cog5HNP9P4M5LPJ=ZLz-dzLocAUKAG7cZi7yg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 07:24:20PM -0400, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Alexander Duyck
> <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com> wrote:
> > On 07/22/2014 03:19 AM, Andy Zhou wrote:
> >> This adds a device level support for Geneve -- Generic Network
> >> Virtualization Encapsulation. The protocol is documented at
> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
> >>
> >> Only protocol layer Geneve support is provided by this driver.
> >> Openvswitch can be used for configuring, set up and tear down
> >> functional Geneve tunnels.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira•com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira•com>
> >> ---
> >> include/net/geneve.h | 85 +++++++++++++++
> >> include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 2 +
> >> net/ipv4/Kconfig | 14 +++
> >> net/ipv4/Makefile | 1 +
> >> net/ipv4/geneve.c | 273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 11 ++
> >> net/openvswitch/vport.c | 3 +
> >> 7 files changed, 389 insertions(+)
> >> create mode 100644 include/net/geneve.h
> >> create mode 100644 net/ipv4/geneve.c
> >>
> >
> > So all this is really doing is enabling a Geneve socket for use by
> > Openvswitch. Do you have any plans to enable a stand alone interface
> > like what we already have for VXLAN?
>
> Yes, this is the basic protocol code that would be shared by all users
> of Geneve. OVS is the first user but John Linville is looking at
> adding support for connecting this to 'ip' as a non-OVS user.
ACK
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-23 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-22 10:19 [net-next 00/10] Add Geneve Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 01/10] net: Rename ndo_add_vxlan_port to ndo_add_udp_tunnel_port Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:49 ` Varka Bhadram
2014-07-24 6:40 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-07-24 20:28 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 02/10] udp: Expand UDP tunnel common APIs Andy Zhou
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9M_BpjT-_Egng+jFxmqJzdC2Npg0ufE2ZSAb9Lhw8hxg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-22 21:02 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 21:16 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-22 21:56 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-22 22:38 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-22 22:55 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-07-22 23:24 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-23 2:16 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-07-23 3:53 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-23 4:35 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-23 15:45 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 3:24 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-22 23:12 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-23 19:57 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 20:23 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-24 20:47 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 20:54 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 03/10] vxlan: Remove vxlan_get_rx_port() Andy Zhou
[not found] ` <CAKgT0UeRSc3MaZrLmXyx4jPZO+F1hS5imR1TjFkvKp4S8nQmeg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-23 3:57 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 04/10] net: Refactor vxlan driver to make use of common UDP tunnel functions Andy Zhou
2014-07-24 6:46 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 05/10] net: Add Geneve tunneling protocol driver Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 23:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-07-22 23:24 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-23 14:11 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2014-07-23 18:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 06/10] openvswitch: Eliminate memset() from flow_extract Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 07/10] openvswitch: Add support for matching on OAM packets Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 08/10] openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 09/10] openvswitch: Factor out allocation and verification of actions Andy Zhou
2014-07-22 10:19 ` [net-next 10/10] openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling Andy Zhou
2014-07-23 20:29 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 4:10 ` Jesse Gross
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9umxiFYtnG1kzFkK+Ev=b=4f3q2OOow2QcfCB5rUTUyA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-24 22:59 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-24 23:45 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-25 1:04 ` Jesse Gross
2014-07-22 10:54 ` [net-next 00/10] Add Geneve Varka Bhadram
2014-07-24 6:58 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-07-24 17:40 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-24 21:03 ` Andy Zhou
2014-07-24 22:03 ` Tom Herbert
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