From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:37:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20111123053717.GK3344@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <1321657938-21761-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> <1321657938-21761-5-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> <1321878007.2291.12.camel@mojatatu> <1322012755.2039.36.camel@mojatatu> <4ECC5AAB.8000605@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org" , "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Jamal Hadi Salim , "David S. Miller" To: John Fastabend Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ECC5AAB.8000605-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org * John Fastabend (john.r.fastabend-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org) wrote: > He is pushing and popping entire tags off 802.1Q for now but > you can easily imagine MPLS tags and all sorts of other things > people will _need_. Right, already doing some generic encap/decap for tunnelling. > Do we want tc and likely the skbedit action to explode into a > packet mangling tool? Would it make sense to plug into ebtables > perhaps with a new family, NFPROTO_OPENFLOW or even on the > existing NFPROTO_BRIDGE. Of course, ovs is not limited to layer2 switching. > Although doing it with classifiers and more actions would flush > out that TODO in act_mirred, and get us an mq_ingress among > other things.