[ovs-dev] 3 byte oxm fields?

YAMAMOTO Takashi yamamoto at valinux.co.jp
Tue Oct 8 05:50:01 UTC 2013


> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:31:30PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> ovs uses length==4 for the following oxm fields.  why?
>> 
>>     OXM_OF_IPV6_FLABEL
> 
> OXM_OF_IPV6_FLABEL is 4 bytes in the openflow.h header from ONF, so OVS
> has this right.

the header is considered more authoritive than the published spec?

YAMAMOTO Takashi

> 
>>     OXM_OF_MPLS_LABEL
> 
> OXM_OF_MPLS_LABEL is 4 bytes in the openflow.h header from ONF, so OVS
> has this right.
> 
>>     OXM_OF_PBB_ISID
> 
> OVS has this wrong, oops.  Fortunately OVS doesn't implement PBB so this
> shouldn't cause any harm.  I'll send out a patch anyway.
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