[ovs-dev] [post-8024 4/5] flow: Use FWW_ flags to wildcard IP DSCP and ECN.

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Fri Nov 11 02:02:31 UTC 2011


On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> I'm not sure that we care about using exactly the same naming as the
> OpenFlow 1.0 document.  Our header file diverged years ago and now I
> imagine that the diff is practically the whole file.

That's true.  As I mentioned earlier, I'd still prefer to use "tos" when the bit positions match TOS--even if they can only match the DSCP part.

> Do you think that FWW_* bits are superior to a mask in this case?
> It's not clear-cut, to me, since it's a matter of a single byte and
> both fields are part of that byte.


It seemed slightly more efficient, and I think you had suggested it in the review of my ECN changes.

--Justin





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