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List:       openvswitch-dev
Subject:    [ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] datapath-windows: Enable checksum offloads in STT
From:       aserdean () cloudbasesolutions ! com (Alin Serdean)
Date:       2015-09-30 21:22:48
Message-ID: 6FDA0CACF4BC624BBE12167875D71C9BA060F8 () CBSEX1 ! cloudbase ! local
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> > > 
> > > The patches I've seen from the Hyper-V developers so far are just in
> > > Hyper-V specific code, that can't really affect the stability of the
> > > rest of the platform.  I have questions about the value of doing
> > > this on 2.4, given that 2.5 will branch in a reasonable amount of
> > > time, but since they're eager to do it I'm not sure that it's worth
> > > discouraging them ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > I think it does cause problems for people who want to upgrade OVS in
> > production deployments as often it is not desirable to just take a
> > large set of changes wholesale for a bugfix release. If there are many
> > unrelated commits for feature development it makes it harder to
> > identify what is actually going on. I'm also not sure that it is true
> > that there are no changes to common code.
> 
> Nithin, Alin, et al., why do you guys want this on branch-2.4 so badly?
> Everything that Jesse is saying is right, and despite my initial instincts I'm
> inclined to agree with him in the end.
[Alin Gabriel Serdean: ] We would like to encourage users to start using OVS under \
Hyper-V so we can get as much feedback as possible.  Making it more easy to use it \
straight out of the box and under a release version would help us in this matter.

Alin.


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