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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath
 hardware offload
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:58:54 -0400
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On 08/26/14 10:06, Jiri Pirko wrote:

> Yes. Flows are phase one. The api will be extended in for whatever is
> needed for l2/l3 as you said. Also I see a possibility to implement the
> l2/l3 use case with flows as well.

And as a note: This is where i have the disagreement.
It is good there is acknowledgement you are handling flows for now.
Or whatever tuples you defined as "flow". I dont think L2 or 3 fit
in that. If thats not what you are saying then we are in agreement.

cheers,
jamal