[ovs-dev] [PATCH v7 1/3] ofproto-dpif: MPLS recirculation

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Jun 23 22:58:28 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:50:20PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:09:38AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> > In some cases an pop MPLS action changes a packet to be a non-mpls packet.
>> > In this case subsequent any L3+ actions require access to portions
>> > of the packet which were not decoded as they were opaque when the
>> > packet was MPLS. Allow such actions to be translated by
>> > first recirculating the packet.
>> >
>> > Co-authored-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
>>
>> I'm pretty happy with this.
>>
>> One final question: I think that compose_recirculate_action() needs to
>> set ctx->exit unconditionally, not just in the failure cases.  Do you agree?
>
> Yes I agree.
>
> Let me know if you would like me to re-spin.

Please. That would save me a minute or two. Thanks!



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