From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
To: ovs-team@nicira.com
Cc: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>, Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: openvswitch/flow WAS ( Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:18:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101015161823.GA5110@nicira.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287142292.3642.19.camel@bigi>
[adding ovs-team]
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 07:31:32AM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
> Sorry, slightly off topic - and this old (catching up
> with netdev randomly going backwards)..
>
> I was curious after seeing the exchange with Eric D. on
> the tunnels and how you have your own tree so i glossed
> over what your project is doing.
>
> It seems to me that you reinvented things that exist in
> Linux already such as bridging, tunnels and what really
> caught my attention: ability to do flows (tc actions).
> It is possible Linux is missing something you wanted or was
> not efficient enough?
> [For example: I couldnt see anything you needed
> on flow-action management that Linux couldnt do already
> (with already very nice well structured netlink APIs)]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-15 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-30 6:27 [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath Simon Horman
2010-08-30 6:52 ` Joe Perches
2010-08-30 7:11 ` Simon Horman
2010-08-30 7:25 ` Joe Perches
2010-08-30 7:33 ` Simon Horman
2010-08-30 17:22 ` Ben Pfaff
2010-08-30 18:26 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-08-30 18:33 ` Ben Pfaff
2010-08-30 18:45 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-08-30 20:59 ` Chris Wright
2010-08-31 0:48 ` Simon Horman
2010-08-31 0:54 ` Chris Wright
2010-08-31 1:01 ` Simon Horman
2010-08-31 1:11 ` Jesse Gross
2010-08-31 1:38 ` Simon Horman
2010-08-31 8:18 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-30 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 22:15 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-08-31 11:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 17:04 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-08-31 17:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 20:16 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-10-15 11:31 ` openvswitch/flow WAS ( " jamal
2010-10-15 16:18 ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
2010-10-15 21:35 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-16 11:35 ` jamal
2010-10-16 19:33 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-18 12:16 ` jamal
2010-10-18 15:20 ` Simon Horman
2010-10-19 10:22 ` jamal
2010-10-19 14:56 ` Simon Horman
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