From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:49:12 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: ovs-vlan-bugs: Document driver bug with priority tagged packets.
X-Git-Tag: v1.3.0~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=sliver-openvswitch.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=fac07bb422ddb27cc46dbff9fc9011a0f3de1118

ovs-vlan-bugs: Document driver bug with priority tagged packets.

Reported-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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diff --git a/utilities/ovs-vlan-bugs.man b/utilities/ovs-vlan-bugs.man
index bdca8fcc3..1e62d16ef 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-vlan-bugs.man
+++ b/utilities/ovs-vlan-bugs.man
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ the extracted tag.  Drivers are supposed to only enable stripping if a
 \fBvlan_group\fR is registered but not all of them do that.
 .
 .IP \(bu
+On receive, some drivers handle priority tagged packets specially and
+don't pass the tag onto the network stack at all, so Open vSwitch
+never has a chance to see it.
+.
+.IP \(bu
 Some drivers size their receive buffers based on whether a
 \fBvlan_group\fR is enabled, meaning that a maximum size packet with a
 VLAN tag will not fit if no \fBvlan_group\fR is configured.