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Commit e4f67add authored by David Stevens's avatar David Stevens Committed by David S. Miller
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add DOVE extensions for VXLAN



This patch provides extensions to VXLAN for supporting Distributed
Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE) networks. The patch includes:

	+ a dove flag per VXLAN device to enable DOVE extensions
	+ ARP reduction, whereby a bridge-connected VXLAN tunnel endpoint
		answers ARP requests from the local bridge on behalf of
		remote DOVE clients
	+ route short-circuiting (aka L3 switching). Known destination IP
		addresses use the corresponding destination MAC address for
		switching rather than going to a (possibly remote) router first.
	+ netlink notification messages for forwarding table and L3 switching
		misses

Changes since v2
	- combined bools into "u32 flags"
	- replaced loop with !is_zero_ether_addr()

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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