Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/5] bridge: uapi: add per vlan tunnel info

From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 08:59:25 -0800

On 1/20/17, 9:46 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>
> New netlink api to associate tunnel info per vlan.
> This is used by bridge driver to send tunnel metadata to
> bridge ports in LWT tunnel dst metadata mode.
>
> One example use for this is a vxlan bridging gateway or vtep
> which maps vlans to vn-segments (or vnis). User can configure
> per-vlan tunnel information which the bridge driver can use
> to bridge vlan into the corresponding vn-segment.
>
> This patch also introduces a bridge port flag IFLA_BRPORT_LWT_VLAN
> to enable this feature on a tunnel bridge port. It is off by default.
>
>
since it does not use the LWT infra, I plan to drop any LWT references and call
the new features and modes plain collect metadata or dst_metadata mode in the next version.