[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] userspace: add support for pop_eth and push_eth actions

Lori Jakab lojakab at cisco.com
Thu May 22 20:35:54 UTC 2014


On 5/22/14, 9:45 PM, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 05:02:14PM +0300, Lorand Jakab wrote:
>>> These actions will allow L2->L3 and L3->L2 switching, and are supposed
>>> to be added to flows installed in the datapath transparently by
>>> ovs-vswitchd.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lorand Jakab <lojakab at cisco.com>
>> This appears to renumber some existing OVS_ACTION_ATTR_*.  I doubt
>> that it should do that.
> I originally asked Lori to move the MPLS attributes to higher numbers
> since there wasn't corresponding kernel code. However, now that we
> have other actions on top of them it's not such a good idea. (I guess
> we could still do it since we haven't released anything with hashing
> or recirculation yet but it seems like more trouble than it's worth.)
> However, my hope is that MPLS will go in soon so it should be a
> non-issue.
OK, I will revert the change to the MPLS attributes for v4.



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