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    vxlan: Flow based tunneling · ee122c79
    Thomas Graf authored
    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: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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