[ovs-dev] [PATCH] net: openvswitch: Support masked set actions.

[David Miller]

From: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2014 16:10:25 -0800

> OVS userspace already probes the openvswitch kernel module for
> OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET_MASKED support.  This patch adds the kernel module
> implementation of masked set actions.
> 
> The existing set action sets many fields at once.  When only a subset
> of the IP header fields, for example, should be modified, all the IP
> fields need to be exact matched so that the other field values can be
> copied to the set action.  A masked set action allows modification of
> an arbitrary subset of the supported header bits without requiring the
> rest to be matched.
> 
> Masked set action is now supported for all writeable key types, except
> for the tunnel key.  The set tunnel action is an exception as any
> input tunnel info is cleared before action processing starts, so there
> is no tunnel info to mask.
> 
> The kernel module converts all (non-tunnel) set actions to masked set
> actions.  This makes action processing more uniform, and results in
> less branching and duplicating the action processing code.  When
> returning actions to userspace, the fully masked set actions are
> converted back to normal set actions.  We use a kernel internal action
> code to be able to tell the userspace provided and converted masked
> set actions apart.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>

How does this work, should I be waiting for a signoff or ACK from
Pravin before applying this directly to my tree?