From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mrv@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 iproute2 2/2] actions: Add support for user cookies
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:24:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170218162417.448989e8@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486725944-16898-2-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com>
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:25:44 -0500
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
>
> Make use of 128b user cookies
>
> Introduce optional 128-bit action cookie.
> Like all other cookie schemes in the networking world (eg in protocols
> like http or existing kernel fib protocol field, etc) the idea is to
> save user state that when retrieved serves as a correlator. The kernel
> _should not_ intepret it. The user can store whatever they wish in the
> 128 bits.
The support for this has not been accepted upstream in net-next yet.
Therefore submitting it into iproute2 is premature.
Pleas resubmit when the kernel part (and uapi) are upstream.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-19 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-10 11:25 [PATCH v2 iproute2 1/2] utils: make hex2mem available to all users Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-02-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 iproute2 2/2] actions: Add support for user cookies Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-02-19 0:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-02-19 0:23 ` [PATCH v2 iproute2 1/2] utils: make hex2mem available to all users Stephen Hemminger
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