On 10/07/15 at 10:09am, Jiri Benc wrote: > The big difference to the other features is this cannot be detected > until half way through the setup. > > What I'm proposing instead is to introduce a way to clearly and > unambiguously detect whether lwtunnels are supported or not. We'll need > this anyway: kernel 4.3 won't really support IPv6 tunneling with ovs, > yet there's currently no way to determine whether it's supported or not > (and, unlike with lwtunnel detection, there's not even a hacky way). > Querying the datapath for the supported features is needed > nevertheless; it's only logical to use it for the lwtunnel vs. old > vport decision, too. > > I don't understand why you're opposed to this: it's much cleaner and > there's no problem with lwtunnels not being used with the 4.3 kernel, > everything should work just fine.
Extending ovs_dp_cmd_fill_info() to dump a new dp->kernel_features via a new Netlink attribtue which signals these capabilities looks like a straight forward way to solve this. OVS just needs to set NLM_F_ECHO when creating the initial datapath. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
