[ovs-dev] [nxm 00/42] Implement extended flow match.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Oct 28 17:40:11 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Open vSwitch keeps running into the limitations of the OpenFlow 1.0
> ofp_match structure.  ofp_match is fixed in size, and it has only a
> few "holes" into which additional information can be stuffed.  This
> patch series introduces a new flexible flow match structure that can
> be extended as necessary over time.  It also implements a few initial
> extensions.

This patch series is a superset of the "classifier" series I posted
earlier, so you can ignore that one now.




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