[ovs-dev] Query regarding the implementation of Packet Type aware pipeline [EXT-112]

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:05:41AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 02:50:37PM +0530, niti Rohilla wrote:
> 	My current set of patches depend on EXT-427. EXT-427 would be
> very interesting to push in quickly, especially that Ben is looking at
> similar code. And there are interesting use case related to it, such
> as setting tunnel information in packet out.
> 	The packet type thing was supposed to be used for LISP tunnels
> and other non-Ethernet use case. I did not track those other projects
> and did not work on the integration with those work. That is something
> you may have to consider, as Ben may ask you about it.

I had to look up EXT-427 to find out what we're talking about.  EXT-427
extends OFPT_PACKET_OUT in OF1.5 to allow the controller to specify the
values of arbitrary metadata fields.  Yes, this would be valuable and
I'd be happy to have an implementation.