[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Refactor actions in terms of match fields.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Oct 18 23:05:24 UTC 2011


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:47:19PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
> > Almost all current actions can be expressed in the form of
> > push/pop/set <field>, where field is one of the match fields. We can
> > create three base actions and take a field. This has both a nice
> > symmetry and avoids inconsistencies where we can match on the vlan
> > TPID but not set it.
> > Following patch converts all actions to this new format.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
> > Bug #7115
> 
> Overall, this looks pretty good to me.  I have a few miscellaneous
> comments but in general I like the structure of it.  Ben, can you take
> a look at it as well (although you might as well wait until Pravin has
> had a chance to address my comments here)?

Yes, I'll gladly do a quick review at that point.  Thanks guys.



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