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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2015-07-21 10:43:58 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-07-21 10:39:06 -0700
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parent0accfc268f4d3345693d3af3d5780aae3ad93d8d (diff)
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vxlan: Flow based tunneling
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: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 6bd96fe..648a2c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -3469,5 +3469,6 @@ static inline unsigned int skb_gso_network_seglen(const struct sk_buff *skb)
skb_network_header(skb);
return hdr_len + skb_gso_transport_seglen(skb);
}
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_SKBUFF_H */
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