[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Fix mutual exclusion with bridge module.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think it's very likely in practice that anyone would want to
>> work exclusively with GRE vports.  If it comes up, we can worry about it
>> then.
>
> I actually think it is rather common to have hosts that exclusively switch
> GRE traffic.  It's probably less common that they need to do this while also
> running the Linux bridge at the same time though.  Regardless, it's more the
> fact that this breaks out of the vport abstraction that bothers me.  In
> practice, it doesn't matter though.

OK.  I can't disagree with your conclusions.

Someday we could make vport modules separately loadable, I guess.