[ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/9] Geneve option matching

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Mon Jun 22 17:36:39 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 02:41:29PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> OVN people:
>> As the presumable first user, any OpenFlow level interface issues that
>> might make it more complicated to use. In particular, I think it's
>> a little unfortunate that we don't have a better way to gracefully
>> handle changes to the mapping table when there are active flows but I
>> don't have a good idea there now.
>
> To use Geneve in OVN, we'll need an option class.  Which one should we
> use?

For the time being, I would just make it a #define and set it to
0xffff (experimental). I'll work on getting a real one assigned.



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