Bug 1323148

Summary:	[RFE][OVS] use rtnetlink API to create vports
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jiri Benc <jbenc>
Component:	openvswitch	Assignee:	Eric Garver <egarver>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	qding
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	aloughla, atragler, cascardo, hsowa, mleitner, qding, sukulkar
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Last Closed:	2017-09-06 21:47:17 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1361236, 1361238, 1361241
Bug Blocks:	1268061, 1323132

Description Jiri Benc 2016-04-01 11:46:03 UTC

Currently, with the kernel datapath, tunnel setup (vxlan, geneve) is done through the compat layer in the kernel. This should be converted to create tunnels directly using rtnetlink with the COLLECT_METADATA flag set.

This is needed to support new features: VXLAN-GPE, better control of checksumming, etc.

This feature needs upstream work first.

Comment 2 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 2016-05-26 20:36:45 UTC

POSTED upstream.

http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-May/071776.html

Comment 3 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 2016-08-04 18:45:53 UTC

This is not yet ready for OVS 2.6. Depends on some datapath work and other bug fixes.

Cascardo.

Comment 4 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 2016-12-02 18:16:38 UTC

Reassigning to Eric Garver.

Comment 8 Eric Garver 2017-09-06 21:47:17 UTC

This feature is in the upstream OVS 2.8 release and will therefore make its way into the next fast-datapath-beta update.