| Message ID | 1541543066-4355-2-git-send-email-gvrose8192@gmail.com |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [ovs-dev,1/2] gre: Remove dead ipgre code | expand |
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 2:24 PM Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> wrote: > > The documentation needs to specify that for GRE tunnels there is no > support for legacy_l3 type packets in the kernel datapath. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> > --- LGTM. Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:03:32PM -0800, William Tu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 2:24 PM Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The documentation needs to specify that for GRE tunnels there is no > > support for legacy_l3 type packets in the kernel datapath. > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> > > --- > LGTM. > Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> Thanks Greg and William, I applied this series to master.
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml index efa1ef8..b0b42e0 100644 --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml @@ -2700,6 +2700,12 @@ OpenFlow controllers that expect this behavior. </li> <li> + The <code>legacy_l3</code> option is only available via the + user space datapath. The OVS kernel datapath does not support + devices of type ARPHRD_IPGRE which is the requirement for + <code>legacy_l3</code> type packets. + </li> + <li> If this option is <code>ptap</code>, the tunnel sends and receives any kind of packet. Open vSwitch represents packets in the tunnel using the <code>packet_type</code> mechanism
The documentation needs to specify that for GRE tunnels there is no support for legacy_l3 type packets in the kernel datapath. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> --- vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)