From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [patch net-next] tc: introduce OpenFlow classifier Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:45:02 -0400 Message-ID: <55189C8E.7070705@mojatatu.com> References: <1427374439-11587-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <1427379836.29436.9.camel@stressinduktion.org> <20150326152938.GD2010@nanopsycho.orion> <1427402351.2093330.245738573.1406B9EA@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20150327060716.GB2073@nanopsycho.orion> <20150327114402.GB12265@casper.infradead.org> <20150327122846.GA2172@nanopsycho.orion> <20150327123627.GG12265@casper.infradead.org> <20150327124513.GB2172@nanopsycho.orion> <20150327124938.GH12265@casper.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, jesse@nicira.com To: Thomas Graf , Jiri Pirko Return-path: Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com ([209.85.213.179]:34475 "EHLO mail-ig0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752577AbbC3ApK (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:45:10 -0400 Received: by igcau2 with SMTP id au2so62867522igc.1 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:45:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150327124938.GH12265@casper.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/27/15 08:49, Thomas Graf wrote: > So at that point you get fairly close to cls_flow in terms > of functionality. Not sure why you want to keep them separate. > IMO, it is different enough to be separate. Flow could do more of course (as could u32) but the lookup approaches are different. And yes, ONF will probably make a press release if you called it the openflow classifier (fingers crossed). cheers, jamal