[ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload

[Jiri Pirko]

Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:29:10PM CEST, jhs at mojatatu.com wrote:
>On 08/26/14 11:22, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
>>I do not think that really matters. Phase one is flows. After that we
>>can focus on l2/l3. If we would be able to fit in in flows (some drivers
>>may), then ok. If not, we extend the api with couple of more l2/l3
>>related ndos. I see no problem there.
>
>Well, it matters because we are proceeding to implement L2/3.
>i.e the simple stuff first. We dont have anything to show yet - but
>we will hopefully have some useful bit by Plumbers.
>So maybe best path forward is we talk then and see how we can merge
>efforts since we cant seem to agree at this point.

I think we are in agreement. We have two worlds: flows and l2/3. We need
both for sure. And my patchset adds an initial part of the first one.
The second one can be added later. I do not see any issues in that.