From: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: igorm@etf.rs, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MPLS for Linux kernel
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:18:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECAA41C.9040007@dti2.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111121.132914.1611617296397809001.davem@davemloft.net>
El 21/11/2011 19:29, David Miller escribió:
> From: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:01:26 +0100
>
>> mpls-linux it is not ready to go upstream in my opinion.
>
> And can arguably be implemented in terms of openvswitch and packet scheduler actions.
I guess so, I have not really looked much at the openvswitch code. The MPLS
code it is pretty self contained and in my opinion more tied to routing than to
switching (*). I don't think it should be necessary an userspace daemon, like it
seems necessary for openvswitch, just to bind a label to a route, the same way
that it is not necessary a daemon to support VLAN's currently. The label
signaling protocols are already complicated :)
I work in this code, like a lot of people do, because I have a use for it. I
would really like to see it upstreamed but if it does not fit upstream plans, it
is not a problem, this code it is not that hard to maintain.
In any case critics/reviews/patches are most than welcome.
(*) The code that you implemented for 2.6.1 and that James R. Leu used in this
codebase it is even more tied together to routing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-20 21:59 MPLS for Linux kernel Igor Maravić
2011-11-21 15:01 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-21 17:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-21 17:46 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-21 18:29 ` David Miller
2011-11-21 19:18 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] [this message]
2011-11-22 8:52 ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 12:30 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22 13:55 ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 14:33 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22 14:35 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22 15:51 ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 21:41 ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 21:49 ` David Miller
2011-11-23 7:09 ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-24 23:39 ` Glen Turner
2011-11-25 5:43 ` David Miller
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