[ovs-dev] [PATCH v1] ovn: Extend Address_Set to Macros to support define port name sets

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Aug 3 22:31:10 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 11:14:20PM +0800, Zong Kai LI wrote:
> This patch aims to extend Address_Set to Macros, make it more common to
> accept variable set, not only address. And by that, we can skinny down ACLs,
> if we use Macros to defines port name sets for ACL to use, since lots of ACL
> entries are similar but only "inport" and "outport" fields are different.
> 
> Address_Set improves the performance of OVN control plane. But what more
> important is, its implementation introduced a "$macros -- element_set"
> mechanism, it's good way to do bunch jobs for ACLs, and even lflows.

I'd prefer to defer this feature past the Open vSwitch 2.6 release.



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