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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Gavin Li <gavinl@nvidia.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, orika@nvidia.com, aman.deep.singh@intel.com,
	yuying.zhang@intel.com, dsosnowski@nvidia.com,
	viacheslavo@nvidia.com, suanmingm@nvidia.com, matan@nvidia.com,
	jiaweiw@nvidia.com, rasland@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [V1 0/5] support VXLAN-GPE header fields(flags, rsvd0 and rsvd1) matching
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:44:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240219154456.556e3967@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4674219.U3zVgo479M@thomas>

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:48:31 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 19/02/2024 20:50, Stephen Hemminger:
> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:02:05 +0200
> > Gavin Li <gavinl@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Previously, VXLAN-GPE in DPDK only supports VNI and next protocol header
> > > fields. This patch series add support for flags and reserved field 0 and
> > > 1.
> > > 
> > > Below is the VXLAN-GPE header defined in the lasted draft.
> > >     0                   1                   2                   3
> > >     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
> > >    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> > >    |R|R|Ver|I|P|B|O|       Reserved                |Next Protocol  |
> > >    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> > >    |                VXLAN Network Identifier (VNI) |   Reserved    |
> > >    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  
> > 
> > Would recommend against implementing anything in a draft RFC.
> > Things can change.  Learned the hard way when doing VXLAN driver for Linux.
> > The hardcoded port value in the Linux VXLAN driver is wrong because it matched
> > the draft RFC (got changed in final version). Because of strict compatibility
> > requirements the Linux driver could not be changed to the correct value.  
> 
> The problem is that standardization may be slow.
> Would it be acceptable without any compatibility guarantee?

Never mark it stable until RFC is done.

      reply	other threads:[~2024-02-19 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-12  8:02 Gavin Li
2024-01-12  8:02 ` [V1 1/5] net/mlx5: support VXLAN-GPE flags matching Gavin Li
2024-01-12  8:02 ` [V1 2/5] app/testpmd: support VXLAN-GPE flags Gavin Li
2024-01-25  6:19   ` Singh, Aman Deep
2024-01-12  8:02 ` [V1 3/5] net/mlx5: support VXLAN-GPE reserved fields matching Gavin Li
2024-01-12  8:02 ` [V1 4/5] app/testpmd: support VXLAN-GPE reserved fields Gavin Li
2024-01-25  6:17   ` Singh, Aman Deep
2024-01-12  8:02 ` [V1 5/5] net/mlx5/hws: support VXLAN-GPE matching Gavin Li
2024-01-24  9:46 ` [V1 0/5] support VXLAN-GPE header fields(flags, rsvd0 and rsvd1) matching Raslan Darawsheh
2024-02-19 19:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-02-19 22:48   ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-02-19 23:44     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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