Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2 0/3] light weight tunnel infrastructure and driver

From: Robert Shearman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:38:36 +0100

On 19/06/15 05:49, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>
> This series implements infrastructure for light weight tunnels to support
> mpls label edge routers (ie mpls ip tunnels). As previously discussed
> having netdevices will not scale. Hence this series introduces new RTA_ENCAP*
> attributes to attach encap information with routes (following suggestion
> from Eric Biederman).

Looks promising, thanks for posting this series Roopa!

>
> The first patch introduces an infrastructure to support light weight tunnels
> that dont have netdevices. The infrastructure allows tunnel drivers
> to register handlers to parse and build tunnel encap data which can be attached
> to each route nexthop.
>
> The second patch adds support in ipv4 fib to carry such light weight tunnel
> encap data.

I presume this isn't ready to be merged until IPv6 is done, right?

>
> The third patch implements mpls ip tunnels using this light weight tunnel
> infrastructure.
>
> Could not think of a better name, so, it is 'lwt' for 'light weight tunnels'
> for now.

I can't think of a better name either.

Thanks,
Rob