[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/3] megaflow: Add mask attribute to netlink protocol

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Andy Zhou <azhou at nicira.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/linux/openvswitch.h
> index e890fd8..6e71b4c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/openvswitch.h
> +++ b/include/linux/openvswitch.h
> @@ -410,6 +410,9 @@ struct ovs_key_nd {
>   * @OVS_FLOW_ATTR_CLEAR: If present in a %OVS_FLOW_CMD_SET request, clears the
>   * last-used time, accumulated TCP flags, and statistics for this flow.
>   * Otherwise ignored in requests.  Never present in notifications.
> + * @OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MASK: Optional Nested %OVS_KEY_ATTR_* attributes specifying
> + * the mega flow mask. OVS_KEY_ATTR_* attributes specified only in OVS_FLOW_ATTR_KEY
> + * but not here will be treated as wildcard field.

Can you expand this comment a little bit? Outside of people that have
been working on it, I'm not sure that the term mega flow is really
self-descriptive.