[ovs-dev] [PATCH v8 0/3] Flow-Based Recirculation for MPLS
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Wed Jun 25 21:19:38 UTC 2014
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:46:30AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> The motivation of this series is to allow some sequences of actions
> that include MPLS actions to be performed using recirculation.
> Sequences of actions that could not previously be handled.
>
> For example pop_mpls:0x0800,dec_ttl.
>
> This uses recirculation after the pop_mpls action to allow access to L3
> information of the inner packet which is used by the dec_ttl action.
>
> Caveats:
>
> * Packets with an in port that is not present in the datapath
> (e.g. CONTROLLER, patch-ports) may not be recirculated due to limitations
> in the recirculation infrastructure used by this patchset. This problem
> is common to all users of recirculation (the other is bonding).
> * Recirculation looses metadata fields such as registers, the stack,
> and original skb priority.
All applied. Thank you!
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