Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Change in openvswitch kernel module to support MPLS label depth of 3 in ingress direction.

From: Martin Varghese <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:38:29 +0530

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 12:07:06PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 07:55:32PM +0530, Martin Varghese wrote:
> > From: Martin Varghese <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > The openvswitch kernel module was supporting a MPLS label depth of 1
> > in the ingress direction though the userspace OVS supports a max depth
> > of 3 labels. This change enables openvswitch module to support a max
> > depth of 3 labels in the ingress.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <[email-masked]>
> 
> Thanks for the patch!
> 
> Usually, for kernel module changes, the workflow is to submit the change
> upstream to the Linux kernel first ("upstream first").  Then, afterward,
> we backport the upstream changes into the OVS repository.
> 
> I see that you have CCed this to the Linux kernel networking list
> (netdev) but the patch itself is against the OVS repo.  Probably, if you
> want to get reviews from netdev, you should instead post a patch against
> the net-next repository.
> 
> Thanks again for working to improve Open vSwitch.

Thankyou for your mail.
The same changes are being discussed in [email-masked].
Along with this patch, V2 of kernel patch for net-next repo is also submitted.