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authorAlexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>2016-06-16 22:23:19 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-06-18 06:23:32 +0300
commitb9adcd69bd7b41625201686b4cfec7ff13357afc (patch)
treec2ac679016a2ed23c2b9bd9790eb8bd9d7e6ac3b /include/net/udp_tunnel.h
parent1938ee1fd3de74d761a60806b048df652666afec (diff)
downloadlinux-b9adcd69bd7b41625201686b4cfec7ff13357afc.tar.xz
vxlan: Add new UDP encapsulation offload type for VXLAN-GPE
The fact is VXLAN with Generic Protocol Extensions cannot be supported by the same hardware parsers that support VXLAN. The protocol extensions allow for things like a Next Protocol field which in turn allows for things other than Ethernet to be passed over the tunnel. Most existing parsers will not know how to interpret this. To resolve this I am giving VXLAN-GPE its own UDP encapsulation offload type. This way hardware that does support GPE can simply add this type to the switch statement for VXLAN, and if they don't support it then this will fix any issues where headers might be interpreted incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h
index 1c9408a04213..02c5be037451 100644
--- a/include/net/udp_tunnel.h
+++ b/include/net/udp_tunnel.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ void setup_udp_tunnel_sock(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
enum udp_parsable_tunnel_type {
UDP_TUNNEL_TYPE_VXLAN, /* RFC 7348 */
UDP_TUNNEL_TYPE_GENEVE, /* draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve */
+ UDP_TUNNEL_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE, /* draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe */
};
struct udp_tunnel_info {