Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] bridge: per vlan lwt and dst_metadata support

From: Jiri Benc <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:24:58 +0100

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:13:30 -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> And, a 'vlan-to-tunid' mapping is a very common configuration in L2 ethernet vpn configurations.

You have one particular and narrow use case in mind and are proposing a
rather large patchset to add support for that (and only that) single
use case, while we already have a generic mechanism in place to address
this and many similar (and dissimilar, too) use cases. That doesn't
sound right.

If the current generic mechanisms have bottlenecks for your use case,
let's work on removing those bottlenecks. That way, everybody benefits,
not just a single use case.

Thanks,

 Jiri