APPLIED: [X/B/D linux-kvm][SRU][PATCH 0/1] UBUNTU: [Config] Enable VXLAN module support

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue Sep 3 14:58:16 UTC 2019


On 8/19/19 8:15 AM, Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> == SRU Justification ==
> VXLAN is used by Flannel and maybe other CNI plugins for Kubernetes,
> it will be great to enable the support in KVM kernels.
> 
> == Fix ==
> Enable the CONFIG_VXLAN in the config file.
> CONFIG_NET_UDP_TUNNEL=m and other configs were added automatically with
> updateconfigs.
> 
> CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_VXLAN supprt was excluded intentionally as this is
> not requested (and to reduce the binary size).
> 
> == Test ==
> Test kernels could be found here:
> https://people.canonical.com/~phlin/kernel/lp-1811819-vxlan/
> 
> Kernel smoke tested.
> User has also verified that all the patched kernels are working as
> expected.
> 
> == Regression Potentail ==
> Low, this enables the support for VXLAN module on KVM kernels, we might
> see some related bugs in the future. Since we already have this in the
> generic kernel so the impact should be small.
> 
> Po-Hsu Lin (1):
>   UBUNTU: [Config] Enable VXLAN module support
> 
>  debian.kvm/config/config.common.ubuntu | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Applied to xenial, bionic and disco linux-kvm/master-next branches.

Thanks,
Kleber



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