1. 22 7月, 2015 1 次提交
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      vxlan: Flow based tunneling · ee122c79
      Thomas Graf 提交于
      Allows putting a VXLAN device into a new flow-based mode in which
      skbs with a ip_tunnel_info dst metadata attached will be encapsulated
      according to the instructions stored in there with the VXLAN device
      defaults taken into consideration.
      
      Similar on the receive side, if the VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA flag is
      set, the packet processing will populate a ip_tunnel_info struct for
      each packet received and attach it to the skb using the new metadata
      dst.  The metadata structure will contain the outer header and tunnel
      header fields which have been stripped off. Layers further up in the
      stack such as routing, tc or netfitler can later match on these fields
      and perform forwarding. It is the responsibility of upper layers to
      ensure that the flag is set if the metadata is needed. The flag limits
      the additional cost of metadata collecting based on demand.
      
      This prepares the VXLAN device to be steered by the routing and other
      subsystems which allows to support encapsulation for a large number
      of tunnel endpoints and tunnel ids through a single net_device which
      improves the scalability.
      
      It also allows for OVS to leverage this mode which in turn allows for
      the removal of the OVS specific VXLAN code.
      
      Because the skb is currently scrubed in vxlan_rcv(), the attachment of
      the new dst metadata is postponed until after scrubing which requires
      the temporary addition of a new member to vxlan_metadata. This member
      is removed again in a later commit after the indirect VXLAN receive API
      has been removed.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
      Signed-off-by: NPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ee122c79
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