Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] bridge: per vlan dst_metadata support

From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:02:35 -0800

On 2/1/17, 5:59 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 2/1/17 6:23 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:59:50PM -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
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>>> This provides the required vxlan bridging function but poses a
>>> scalability problem with using a separate vxlan netdev for each vni.
>> if I remember correctly this issue was the main reason David Ahern
>> put netdev on diet. Sounds like no more fun at netconf ;)
>>
> oh, it still needs a diet ...
 Even if the netdev went on diet, a netdev per vni for vxlan deployments is just too much overhead.