[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 04/16] dpif: Allow hash actions in dpif_execute_helper_cb()

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:44:29AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 05:54:52PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Rather then prohibiting hash actions dpif_execute_helper_cb()
> > execute them by passing them on to aux->dpif->dpif_class->execute()
> > and save the updated packet metadata afterwards. It is assumed
> > that if a hash is calculated it will be sored in the dp_hash field
> > of the metadata.
> 
> Not sure where this is going.  Userspace can't necessarily reproduce the
> hash values computed by the datapath; the particular hash function is
> unspecified.

Indeed.

This was going towards executing actions in user-space if the in_port is
not present in the datapath and a recirculation action is added.  That
discussion has moved on a bit and it now seems that the approach I took is
not the favoured one.

I'll remove the patches in this patchset that implement that approach,
rebase the remaining patches and repost.