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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich-IzeFyvvaP7pWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
	<netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	"dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org"
	<dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] openvswitch: enable NSH support
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:22:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170811122256.2cec123e@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CFF8EF42F1132E4CBE2BF0AB6C21C58D7273679A-hqolJogE5njKJFWPz4pdheaU1rCVNFv4@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:09:36 +0000, Jan Scheurich wrote:
> Unless someone can explain to me why the datapath should understand the
> internal structure/format of metadata in push_nsh, I would strongly
> vote to keep the metadata as variable length octet sequence in the
> non-structured OVS_ACTION_ATTR_PUSH_NSH

Could be but it still needs to be in a different attribute and not in
the ovs_action_push_nsh structure.

Separate attributes for MD1/MD2 has the advantage of easier validation:
with a separate MD1 type attribute, the size check is easier. With an
unstructured MD attribute, we'd need to look into the
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_NSH_BASE_HEADER attribute for mdtype and then validate
the unstructured MD attribute size manually. Not a big deal, though.
I don't have strong opinion here.

But I do have strong opinion that MD needs to go into a separate
attribute, whether there are separate attributes for MD1/2 or not.

 Jiri

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-11 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-10 13:21 [PATCH net-next v2] openvswitch: enable NSH support Yi Yang
     [not found] ` <1502371275-52446-1-git-send-email-yi.y.yang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-11  8:24   ` Jiri Benc
2017-08-11  8:47     ` Yang, Yi
2017-08-11  9:10       ` Jiri Benc
2017-08-11  9:24         ` Yang, Yi Y
2017-08-11  9:44           ` Jiri Benc
2017-08-11  9:54             ` Yang, Yi
2017-08-11 10:09             ` Jan Scheurich
     [not found]               ` <CFF8EF42F1132E4CBE2BF0AB6C21C58D7273679A-hqolJogE5njKJFWPz4pdheaU1rCVNFv4@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-11 10:22                 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2017-08-13 21:13                   ` Jan Scheurich
     [not found]                     ` <CFF8EF42F1132E4CBE2BF0AB6C21C58D72736EAE-hqolJogE5njKJFWPz4pdheaU1rCVNFv4@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-14  7:51                       ` Jiri Benc
2017-08-14 10:35                         ` Jan Scheurich
     [not found]                           ` <CFF8EF42F1132E4CBE2BF0AB6C21C58D727373EA-hqolJogE5njKJFWPz4pdheaU1rCVNFv4@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-14 10:47                             ` Jiri Benc
2017-08-14 11:08                               ` Jan Scheurich
2017-08-11 10:35               ` Jiri Pirko
2017-08-14 16:09   ` Eric Garver
2017-08-15  0:39     ` Yang, Yi

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