[ovs-dev] MPLS progress

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Feb 4 18:45:03 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:53:45PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:52:40AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:27:16PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > Earlier today, I applied your 2-patch series to the mpls branch
> > > earlier.
> > > 
> > > Then, I squashed all the patches on that branch, except that I dropped
> > > "Add OpenFlow support for matching multiple MPLS labels at once." (we
> > > can add it back if there is demand) and rebased against current
> > > master.  I applied a bunch of new patches to that today, including
> > > your patch 8/8 "ofproto-dpif: Do not add more MPLS labels to mask than
> > > the datapath can handle", which I'm not happy with but seems the best
> > > approach at the moment.  I pushed that to my github ovs-reviews repo
> > > as a branch "mpls2".
> > > 
> > > Then I squashed everything together again.  That's the mpls3 branch in
> > > my github ovs-reviews repo.
> > > 
> > > I suggest that we continue development from mpls3.  I'm pretty happy
> > > with what's there at the moment.  Please look it over yourself.  I'll
> > > look it over again myself tomorrow.
> > 
> > Thanks for all of that. I have taken a look over mpls3 and it looks good
> > to me. I wonder how you feel about merging it.
> 
> I'm feeling good about it now, but I find that MPLS is fractal: the
> closer I look, the more I see.  I'm going to take another look at it
> tomorrow.  If I'm still happy, I'll merge it.

I applied the patch to master.



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