vswitchd: Document behavior of 802.1p priorities with VLAN splinters.

Reported-by: likunyun <kunyunli@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 4af1cceb771a4a1f4a0117f6b9663c2e403d9662..c6a865b7fbd73c7cacc39b0b47842f012eed0817 100644 (file)
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ Voravit T.              voravit@kth.se
 YAMAMOTO Takashi        yamamoto@valinux.co.jp
 Yongqiang Liu           liuyq7809@gmail.com
 kk yap                  yapkke@stanford.edu
+likunyun                kunyunli@hotmail.com
 冯全树(Crab)          fqs888@126.com
 
 Thanks to all Open vSwitch contributors.  If you are not listed above

diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index 06edb767539ebb50f4f409b3a951f98bb8962eb2..00cfda62dac7d1d34a383fa7cc45b494816ede43 100644 (file)
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -1921,6 +1921,12 @@
           VLAN splinters increase kernel and userspace memory overhead, so do
           not use them unless they are needed.
         </p>
+
+        <p>
+          VLAN splinters do not support 802.1p priority tags.  Received
+          priorities will appear to be 0, regardless of their actual values,
+          and priorities on transmitted packets will also be cleared to 0.
+        </p>
       </column>
     </group>