From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Pfaff Subject: Re: openvswitch/flow WAS ( Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:18:23 -0700 Message-ID: <20101015161823.GA5110@nicira.com> References: <20100830062755.GA22396@verge.net.au> <87k4n8ow1r.fsf@benpfaff.org> <1287142292.3642.19.camel@bigi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jamal , Jesse Gross , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ovs-team@nicira.com Return-path: Received: from outmail149077.authsmtp.com ([62.13.149.77]:58100 "EHLO outmail149077.authsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932115Ab0JOQuF (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:50:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287142292.3642.19.camel@bigi> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: [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)]