[ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/11] metaflow: Allow fields to be marked as variable length.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:13:15PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Until now, all fields that OVS can match against have been fixed
> size (variable length headers can be skipped during parsing but
> the match is fixed). However, Geneve options can vary in size
> so we must not require the size of these fields to be known
> at compile time.
> 
> This allows data types to be annotated with not only their size
> but whether the field can be smaller than that. The following
> patches will change OpenFlow parsing based on that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>