[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] V4 linux datapath Adds 802.1ad (qinq) support

Thomas F Herbert thomasfherbert at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 12:56:32 UTC 2014


Ben,

Thanks for your effort to review this patch. I will fix and resubmit.


On 10/15/14, 6:30 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 08:56:06PM -0400, Thomas F Herbert wrote:
>> This is the linux kernel portion of the patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas F Herbert <thomasfherbert at entpnt.com>
....
>
> The ovs_key_attr values are part of the ABI so you shouldn't add a new
> value in the middle.
>
> Why is OVS_KEY_ATTR_CVLAN needed?  The expectation when we designed
> the Netlink flow structures was that nested VLANs would be implemented
> as multiple nested attributes.
Ben, OK. I will redo to  use nested attributes. Why does mpls have key 
attributes?
>
> I didn't read all of the kernel code so this isn't a full review.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.


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Thomas F. Herbert
Network Implementation Engineer
Entry Point LLC




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