Re: [PATCH 7/7] vxlan: Add support for UDP checksums (v4 TX, v6 zero csums)
From: Jesse Gross <hidden>
Date: 2014-05-29 22:45:40
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Tom Herbert [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c b/net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c index a93efa3..0edbd95 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static struct vport *vxlan_tnl_create(const struct vport_parms *parms) vxlan_port = vxlan_vport(vport); strncpy(vxlan_port->name, parms->name, IFNAMSIZ); - vs = vxlan_sock_add(net, htons(dst_port), vxlan_rcv, vport, true, false); + vs = vxlan_sock_add(net, htons(dst_port), vxlan_rcv, vport, true, 0);
OVS actually already has support for specifying that checksums should be calculated/verified plumbed down to the kernel. This is used already with GRE (via the TUNNEL_CSUM flag). If we modeled VXLAN similarly then it might make the two protocols more similar and give us OVS support for free.